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...celluloid collar. His automobile is a 1927 Studebaker. He does not drive it. Neither does he drive golf or tennis balls. He chews tobacco, spits the juice. He plays solitaire, reads Shakespeare, keeps a garden farm near Granite Falls, Minn. A widower, he has a daughter named Laura, who drives the Studebaker and keeps the house. Last week, he announced her engagement to Carl Lomen, founder and dominator of the Alaskan reindeer industry...
...Engaged. Laura Volstead, daughter of onetime Representative & Mrs. Andrew J. Volstead, of Granite Falls, Minn.; to Carl Lomen,* of Alaska...
...GIRL ADORING - Viola Meynell - Dutton ($2.50). Viola Meynell borrows the delicate pastels of spring flowers to enhance the loveliness of Claire, a young girl adoring. For all her wax-figure delicacy Claire breathes, gently, and harbors surprisingly virile passions. She does not like, she adores, Laura, the sister-in-law with whom she lives, and protects her with passionate devotion from the smug mediocrity of her gentleman-farmer husband. His shortcomings are only too blatant for his sensitive sister Claire, but not for Laura, a duly admiring wife. When Claire discovers the needlessness of so deftly protecting Laura, she turns...
Thus the Heavens fall about me; Bishops and TIME oppose each other, not on opinions but on facts. Be a reportorial Laura Jean Libbey and set me right. You see, my family are, have been, and probably will be Methodists though the next "Battle of the Century" be staged in the local pulpit...
...Author. Emma Alice Margaret Tennant was one of twelve children, born and bred on just such a Scottish estate as Dunross, and Laura, her favorite sister, was just such a charmer as Octavia. Upon Laura's death, Margot sought consolation in London, slumming, dancing, falling often in love. In 1894 she married a widower, Herbert Henry Asquith.* Her two children are Elizabeth, who married Rumanian Prince Bibesco, and Anthony ("Puffin") who directs cinema...