Word: isabell
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...ISABEL STEVENS LATHROP...
...Catholic Majesty, King Alfonso XIII of Spain last week honored Brothers Sosthenes and Hernand Behn, molders of International Tel. and Tel., which operates the Spanish telephones (TIME, April 2). Brothers Behn may now inscribe upon their visiting cards, if they like, this title: Commander of the Royal Order of Isabel the Catholic...
Undergraduate criticism of literature, especially modern literature, is usually to be taken with several grains of appraising salt. Hosannas for Hemingway and disproportionate praise and condemnation is the result in the majority of cases where some young Harry Hansen or Isabel Patterson takes stook of the latest books. This, however, is a less cardinal crime than any other tendency...
...land; the humble, genuine, particular patriotism of farmers, squires, men of the soil. In most of her previous books, she has studied this feeling as it colors the loves, hatreds, hungers of poor people. In Iron and Smoke, Humphrey Mallard, heir to a baronetcy, loves his houses better than Isabel Halnaker, the mistress he relinquishes so that, to save his estates, he may marry Jenny Bastow whose father owns coal mines. After her husband's death, Jenny becomes the intimate friend of Isabel, whom, she realizes, her husband had loved more than herself but less than his lands. Then...
Then the sharp metallic rat-tat-tat-tat of machine guns sounded high above the din of battle as the Isabel replied in deadly fashion to the fire from both banks. Eventually, the Chinese, defeated, ceased fire, and the Isabel passed proudly on downstream. One sailor received two slight flesh wounds...