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...Swedish exercises on the floor, and endless personal hygiene in the only bathroom. Rob, their spoiled schoolboy son, lolls in bed turning a hangover into a case of overwork. Rosamond dreams, as far as her knowledge will permit, of violent love at the hands of Wesley, the chauffeur. Only Isabel, the youngest, is up & about, playing in the pools that have unaccountably appeared in the San Andreas canyon's dry streambed. Old Pryor, Ethel's father, is also up-stealing down the back stairs to beg a cup of coffee from Hertha, the German girl, before Ethel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Ruthless Pity | 5/30/1932 | See Source »

...blight; and God (three parts machinery, one part Dix) lends her a helping hand. The finger of water that had unaccountably appeared in the canyon's bed was not for nought. Asleep in a hut up the canyon, where they have gone for lack of houseroom, Cornelia, Rosamond, Isabel are warned by a dog's bark, just in time to watch the moving finger begin to writhe and write...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Ruthless Pity | 5/30/1932 | See Source »

Three days' sailing away, lapping their grey noses in the yellow river off Shanghai's Bund, lay the Asiatic fleet's fighting strength. There, under Admiral Montgomery Meigs Taylor, were the cruiser Houston, ten destroyers and the yacht Isabel. The Navy's starry ensign also fluttered from the bows of seven gunboats patrolling the Yangtze River while off Nanking were three more U. S. destroyers. Meanwhile the Navy was busy elsewhere...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: Grand Joint Exercise No. 4 | 2/15/1932 | See Source »

GETTING A DIVORCE-Isabel Drummond-Knopf...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Married & Burned | 12/28/1931 | See Source »

...Isabel Drummond has been a teacher, business executive, public relations counsel, newshawk, editor, is now a Philadelphia lawyer. She started practice before she graduated from law school, was soon made woman counselor for Philadelphia's Legal Aid Bureau...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Married & Burned | 12/28/1931 | See Source »

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