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Word: knopf (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...TATTOOED COUNTESS-Carl Van Vechten-Knopf ($2.00). Fleshy and fleshly, but not without wisdom, is the Countess Nattatorrini after 20 years of middle-aged self-indulgence. Sneaking a cigarette in the women's toilet-room of an Iowa-bound Pullman car (anno 1897), she reflects upon her frothy life as the widow of an Italian noble, upon opera, jewels, acquaintances raffinées no end, upon a hulking lover she kept all unfortunately. In Maple Valley, she is welcomed for having been baptized there. Ella Poore was her Main Street name and since she left there have sprung...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: New Books: Sep. 1, 1924 | 9/1/1924 | See Source »

DING DONG BELL-Walter De La Mare-Knopf ($1.75). Two people-a young lady with a silk sunshade, an old gentleman with an umbrella-meet on the platform of a country railroad junction. They have hours to wait. An express goes by; in the hush that follows its passing the old gentleman remarks: "Fifty years ago you could have cradled an infant on that tombstone yonder-Zadakiel Puncheon's- and it would have slept the sun down. Now, poor creature, his ashes are jarred and desecrated a thousand times a day-by mechanisms like that." To scan more closely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: New Books: Aug. 18, 1924 | 8/18/1924 | See Source »

...RICHEST MAN?Edward Shanks ?Knopf ($2.00). Off on a holiday to Italy, suffering from shell-shock, a professor meets a soldier of fortune. Together, they discover a super-man? "the richest man in the world." "He is not one of the millionaires you read about in the newspapers: he is the man behind them?the biggest of them all. He has forests in Canada, ruby mines in the Urals, radium deposits in Brazil, hotels in Japan. There are trust and holding companies and secret agreements. It is a wonderful affair!" This fantastic creature is the storm-centre of startling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Chinese Junk* | 8/4/1924 | See Source »

...COBB OF THE WORLD-Edited by John L. Heaton (his colleague)-Button ($3.50); limited edition ($10.00). *A MAN IN THE Zoo-David Garnett- Knopf ($1.75) was reviewed in TIME, June...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Low Taste | 7/7/1924 | See Source »

...Zoo?David Garnett? Knopf...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Man in Zoo* | 6/30/1924 | See Source »

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