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...Byron's treatment of the following subjects? (Answer with regard to ten of the thirteen subjects): (a) Gibbon, (b) Azo, (c) pedigress, (d) England, (e) any sort of bird, (f) digestion, (g) Clarens, (h) Juan's mother, (i) Cavalier servant, (j) "The castled crag of Drachenfels" (k) Medora, (l) Laura, (m) In medias...
Readers of Liberty, nickel-weekly, last week found "JOYRIDE, A Story of Love ?and Wings," by Alicia Patterson. Opening lines: "Laura Withers was bored. Not the casual brand of boredom that smart women like to wear. But a stifling boredom. . . ." Editor's blurb: "... A young writer with experience as a newspaper reporter, known to readers of Liberty through her articles on hunting, fishing and flying. This time she has turned to fiction." Omitted from blurb: She is the attractive socialite daughter of Captain Joseph Medill Patterson, who divides with his cousin, Colonel Robert Rutherford McCormick, management of Liberty, Chicago...
...Crucifixion ("Were You There When They Crucified My Lord?") drew the most comment. In the latter, Calvary was peopled with a jeering crowd of moderns such as might be seen in any derisive London or Manhattan mob. There were the usual mannerly portraits of royalty. In one room Dame Laura Knight, attired in a white felt sombrero, with red pigtails coiled over her ears, was to be seen contemplating her own scenes of circus life, and Artist George Frederick Arthur Belcher stalked about, his ruddy face and bushy red eyebrows set off by a bright blue foulard stock. Women, young...
...instance, have the enunciation of experienced Shakespearean actors. The marching mob, supposed to be recruited from the slums, all have the same kind of torches, as though their supplies for the attack on the palace had been issued by a circus property-room. Silliest shot: John Boles getting Laura La Plante out of the dungeon...
...largest block of this stock (53% of the total) came from Laura Corrigan, widow of the Founder's son. Mrs. Corrigan, a onetime waitress, was never received by Cleveland society when "Young Jim" took her there to live (TIME, Feb. 13, 1928). She and her husband thereupon moved to London, climbed socially, spent fabulous sums in entertainment. During this time the steel firm was Corrigan-McKinney, a partnership in which McKinney exercised trusteeship over Founder Corrigan's estate. In 1925 he used this power to transform the partnership into a corporation, the McKinney Steel Co. Corrigan returned from...