Word: islanded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been a favorite subject of Rachel Field's. A few years ago the story of the Prussian Lady who had been married to Samuel Hadlock and brought back to spend the rest of her days under the shadow of the blue Mount Desert Hills on lonely Cranberry Island was told in "God's Pocket." Now in "All This and Heaven Too" there is the same fundamental situation although the details are very different, the characters of Henrlette Doluzy-Desportes and the Prussian Lady are far apart from one another...
...Junior Varsity basketball team lost its first game yesterday to Bryant College in Providence, Rhode Island by the socre...
...fundamentally simple weave of these people may feel that they are too often pathological cases, warped by a tough existence into a state of mind where they commit crazy, tragic actions--Mary Orr, for example, who just "upped" and deserted her husband after twenty years, or the Island wife who jumped into the sea one fine day. It is hard for us to regard these abrupt acts, that come with so little outward warning, as normal. We cannot understand the simplicity of a Thomas King who blows the head off his powerful body after carefully feeding his cows. We make...
While Wallace Groves's luck held he was a big shot. He acquired working control of United Cigar-Whelan Stores Corp., Celotex Corp. and several other big industrial concerns. His private life was no less spectacular. He gave lavish parties, married Cinemactress Monaei Lindley, bought an island in the Bahamas, named his yacht the Regardless...
...Staten Island ten years ago, Law Student Charles A. Mulligan Jr. was notified that he had passed his New York bar examination, was overwhelmed by congratulations from his friends. Then he was notified that it had all been a mistake- he had failed. Ashamed, he hid the fact, rapidly became a successful criminal lawyer. Recently he asked New York City's Mayor LaGuardia for appointment as a magistrate. Last week, after an investigation, he was indicted...