Word: kit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...book is filled with colorful people, rainbow scenery, amazing weather. The lean, kind, sandy figure of Kit Carson welcomes the Bishop at Taos. Navajos, Zuñis, Acomas, remnants of the cleanly pueblo tribes, move quietly about in smaller villages, vivid as their blankets and pottery, drawn with the patient accuracy of an archeologist. Cornelian hills circle Santa Fé, where the cathedral arises like a golden butte. Windstorms smother the bishop on the plains, cloudbursts drench him among the peaks...
...KIT O'BRIEN-Edgar Lee Masters-Boni & Liveright ($2). Spoon River idyll...
...Story is told by a small boy whose name is the book's* title. Because his father is a sot, and he thinks people suspect him of knowing a lot about how Mitch Miller (the subject of a novel Author Masters published in 1920) got killed, Kit O'Brien leaves Petersburg, 111., with two of his friends. Hungry, they steal apple pie. His friends get caught, but Kit proceeds, Huck Finn fashion, down the Illinois River into the Mississippi. There on a houseboat he finds Miss Siddons, an impoverished ac tress with a disfigured face, living with a madman. When...
...KIT O'BRIEN?Edgar Lee Masters?Boni & Liveright...
...spite of fatigue, Lewis continued his talk by telling of some Oxford students who came to hear him play at the Kit Kat Club in London. They had seen him in a play then running, and asked him to play a certain tune they had liked. "Why Do You Treat Me That Way?" was its name, they said. "After some little mental torture", Lewis said, "I gave up, when suddenly it occurred to me that the tune in question was 'How Can You Do Me Like You Do?' And that was my best impression of typical English humor...