Word: life
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Arthur William Row name the father of Ellen Terry's children, if he can. If it is difficult to name the father of a lady's children, it is equally difficult to estimate posthumously her detestations. It is certain that Ellen Terry, toward the end of her life, sent messages of felicitation to U. S. admirers. Those, however, who knew her well acknowledge that she cherished a perhaps well-merited resentment against U. S. theatre-goers. This resentment has been recorded in journals or elsewhere...
Women (after a sentence for men): "Every woman has a right to ask whether her life, her home, her man's job, her hopes, her happiness, will be better assured by the continuance of the Republican Party in power. I propose to discuss the questions before me in that light...
...SAVOUR OF LIFE-Arnold Bennett-Doubleday Doran ($2.50). Mr. Bennett has a grievance. People tell him he is a greater novelist than journalist, and he doesn't like it, because he has more fun being a journalist. So he writes a great many essays on a great many subjects to prove that a good modern novelist is essentially a journalist. But the fact remains that none of his journalism is as good as Clayhanger or The Old Wives' Tale...
Though descendants of the Forsytes "may make up fresh adventure for the morrow" (their creator is 61), the Forsyte saga is done. Done because the cycle of old Soames Forsyte's life is complete, and his daughter Fleur, the only descendant that bred true to Forsyte pride and cynical acquisitiveness, has worried her fate to tragic anticlimax. In The White Monkey fate (and Soames) wrenched her from the love of her cousin Jon; in The Silver Spoon fate (and Soames) taught her to snatch what she wanted; in Swan Song again fate (but not Soames) brings her Jon that...
...counts, newspaper owners-but, deep down, she is disgusted with men. Then along comes a lean-hipped young diplomat (Nils Asther) and the Lady of the Couch is stricken with love-at-first-sight. "What does it matter?" she cries, "A man-a woman-before them the highway of life." But, alas for the highway, a rejected count threatens to reveal her past and ruin the young diplomat's career. Death comes to the couch...