Word: life
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...TRIAL OF MARY DUGAN?In which a beautiful chorus girl tensely, tearfully tells the story of her life. (TIME...
...they chide him gently for banging at the piano, for sliding over details and being content too often with broad jagged splashes of color, for limited programs that have been given over and over again. Paderewski takes no notice. He never reads the reviews of his concerts. His life is his own. He sits up far into the night, practices, plays cribbage with Mme. Paderewski, stays in bed until afternoon, has lunch, makes himself ready for a concert, if there is one, does five-finger exercises hour upon hour. His hobbies are billiards, bridge, books, cinemas, his ranch at Paso...
...latest book Fannie Hurst undertakes a pretentious task and fails somewhat of doing it justice. "A President is Born", is an effort to portray the early life and development of a man who was to become President of the United States. David Schuyler, the character in question, is followed from birth to early manhood, and occasion is found to indicate how his ability and qualifications for his later position in life worked themselves out, giving a forecast of the line of his subsequent achievements. To overcome the difficulty of interpreting the early life of her hero in the light...
...interesting, also to see what he writers of our "purpose" on earth: as to the ultimate purpose of human existence, he is at a loss, though he does say that Science, far from eliminating the supreme Life-giver, tries to proceed hand in hand with Him. "Is it reasonable to regard a painting as nothing but paint and canvas, a poem or mathematical proposition as nothing but ink and paper...
...recent biographers of Galahad and of Napoleon collaborated on a title for this book, they would undoubtedly have chosen: "Talleyrand and his Girl Friends: or Too Much of his Private Life to Explain his Reputation." In which case, this review need have been written...