Word: inhabitant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...principally concerned because of the surprise and indignation the second fiction must occasion among the warriors of the Kilyan tribe, all of whom are, of course, faithful subscribers to TIME. If these savages come down from whatever wilds they may inhabit for the purpose of denying, with spears and war-clubs, that Nordhoff and myself are in any way affiliated with their tribe, our blood will be upon the heads of the united staff of TIME. And may you never be able to wash...
Readers of the first volume (TIME, June 5) will have only a slight advantage over newcomers. The 65 characters have grown to more than 100 but their relationships remain comparatively simple. In many cases they are still unaware that they inhabit the same city-book. Some of them: Jerphanion, the ambitious young student at the Normal College, whose friendship with the brilliant Jallez grows more intimate, is beginning to get used to Paris. Murderer Quinette, falling more & more under the fascination of crime, tenders his services to the police as informer, worms his way into the secret councils...
...release of scraggly, dim-witted Richard Dana, 62, nephew of the late great Charles Anderson Dana of the New York Sun, and his guardian, Octavia Dockery, 61, daughter of a Confederate brigadier, once members of Natchez, Miss's oldtime gentility, who inhabit a rundown, goat-and-pig infested plantation, "Glenwood." outside Natchez, after their arrest on suspicion of murdering their neighbor, a well-to-do recluse named Jane Surget ("Miss Jennie") Merrill, daughter of President U. S. Grant's Minister to Belgium: indictment of both by the Adams County grand jury acting on secret new evidence. Sympathetic last...
Snug in Canterbury, Very Rev. Dean Hewlett Johnson pursues puttering studies in everything from geology to Japan and from hydraulics to Australia. Last fortnight these studious ramblings got him into trouble. He had noticed that about 3,000 Australians inhabit the Commonwealth's Northern Territory which is nearly twice the size of the Empire of Japan. Since 90,000,000 Japanese are well known to be overcrowded in their Empire, it occurred to the Very Reverend Dean that the 3,000 Australians might make room for at least a few Japanese. Speaking diffidently at Guildford, puttering Dean Johnson said...
...been more explicit about how its most interesting personage reaches this sad predicament. A plot which is more of an insinuation than a narrative implies that the soul of Bavian's dead mistress, a lady sadist executed for strangling three of her lovers, comes back to inhabit temporarily the body of a pure young heiress (Carole Lombard) who consults Bavian to get news of her dead twin brother. The heiress faints during a seance; when she wakes up, her eyes have a fiendish glitter. She entices Bavian aboard her yacht. He breaks out of her cabin in a puzzled...