Word: infernale
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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THE LITTLE LESS-Ashie Pharall-Appleton ($2.0 Valentine Forrester, a clear-eyed Bohemienne, finds herself attached to a post-war commission in hectic Vienna, where high living overcrusts the depths of misery and shillings loom large. Kit Mallory, cosmopolitan philanderer and frankly short on scruples, finds his languid way to...
Infernal villain ; insane ; insolvent ; insulting to ladies; ironical praise (such as to call an attorney "an honest lawyer" when the opposite is implied) ; itchy old toad ; liar ; mere man of straw ; obituary of a living person.
The Author. Martin Hume of England brings scholarly documentation to his task. He was the official editor of the Spanish State Papers of the period (Public Record office), a careful student of all other relevant material, some of it newly accessible. He is author also of The Courtships of Queen...
There is clear-headed continuity in the ordering of the book, and also a flippant, strained use of fuzzy words. The historian sees his people motivated by eccentric ideas and insanity. The devil, by the vulgate wording, had much to do with their successes?"hellish and dastardly tests," "devilish ingenuity...
But was there a filibuster? Senator James A. Reed of Missouri made several long speeches against the Court, denouncing the propaganda which had been poured out favoring it, and had the clerk read for an hour and a half a long article by Andrew Carnegie. Senator Borah made a vigorous...