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...contradicted a newshawk who dared ask about a "startling statement" she had made: "Young man. I never say startling things." In her yellow stucco house at South Hadley, Mass, she lives with Jeannette Marks, professor of English Literature, surrounded by big collies called such names as "Lord Wellesley" and "Ladybird Holyoke." Her motto for her students is "Poise, Purpose & Perseverance"?corrupted behind her back into "Poise, Poipose & Poiseverance." To this last week the first woman in the world to sit officially in a major international conference could add Peace. Declared Delegate Woolley...
...Scotch captain whom she marries after the death of his wife. The doll symbolizes the fact that even an adoring wife tries to "make a doll of her husband." In The Fox a young returned soldier woos and wins an older woman, who tries to run a farm. In Ladybird an English countess is fascinated by the strange philosophy of a wounded Hungarian count. These tales are free of the tiresome sex discussions which marred Lawrence's last two novels. Their intense mysticism shows his work at its best, though it may puzzle readers accustomed to straight stories. THE ROAD...