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Word: isn (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Kathleen Norris of today is a strikingly handsome woman who looks like a duchess and, fortunately, isn't one. "The greatest fun in life," she told me, "is being forty." One of the most highly paid and the most popular of American women writers, she has pleased the critics as well as the public with at least two of her books, Mother and the recent Certain People of Importance. This tall, aquiline-featured, dominant woman is of literary family. Her husband, a brother of Frank Norris, is Charles Norris, whose Salt and Brass are both American novels of worth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Crumbs* | 3/31/1923 | See Source »

...always on its way in and never docks. His story is told with meticulous attention to the detail of his vulgarisms. THE GIRL NEXT DOOR-Lee Wilson Dodd-Button ($2.00). Mr. Dodd calls his book "the crabbed chronicle of a misanthrope." That is an authoritative statement of what it isn't. It is one of the pleasantest, most amiable of melodramas -an account of the life and opinions of an incomparable quartet in a suburban "Garden City" built over an unwholesome marsh. ESSAYS AT LARGE. BOOKS REVIEWED-Two books by J. C. Squire -Doran...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Crumbs* | 3/31/1923 | See Source »

...well-written book" and then includes it among the most important ten. "The Revolt of the Heavens" is a title of mystery to most readers, yet it comes as a natural choice in such a list. We must bear with Mr. Wells, and remember that if it isn't a great book, it is at least as great as the others included here, for it is the chef d'ocuvre of Copernicus. Shakespeare, the invariable choice of critics, is ignored in favor of Marco Polo's "Travels". Wells considers that the latter book was responsible for the discovery...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ALL'S WELLS! | 3/27/1923 | See Source »

...know we lost the basketball series, but isn't it stretching the proprieties a point to come out as you did before the game with the headline: "Yale Five To Have Edge Tonight"? OMAR...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIME | 3/22/1923 | See Source »

...much emphasis continues to be put on what is, after all, only one part of the actor's equipment? personality. No one knows what personality is. Either it is there or it isn't. But where it comes from or why ? remains an inscrutable mystery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Personality | 3/17/1923 | See Source »

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