Word: life
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...brown hair hung in a ong braid or was twined braided about her head. Her fingers were small and thin, bent strangely about a fiddle, were quick among the fiddle strings, weighted with music." She grew up in a Southern town, a town in which the strong rhythms of life were matched against a cold and dreadful rhythm of decay. There were three men who came to her house, listening to the dark music of her instrument, bringing with them some hot beauty from life. "Conway calling alone would talk of himself, sitting happily in the dim light...
DRACULA?Creepy conglomeration of life, love and a ghost who drinks blood...
...Monds, originally a Jewish family from Cassel, Germany, have fixed themselves most solidly in the industrial and political life of the British Commonwealth of Nations. The first Mond in England was Ludwig (1839-1909), great chemist, who migrated in 1862 and five years later became a naturalized British subject. First he worked in a chemical factory. A fellow worker was John Tomlinson Brunner (1842-1919). They formed the partnership which became Brunner, Mond & Co., and which has long dominated the British chemical industry. Brunner's second son, Roscoe, chairman of the company, killed himself and his wife a year...
Readers wondered how the errors had ever reached the Herald Tribune pages. Those acquainted with the facts of newspaper life mourned for a reckless correspondent in Jackson, Mich., who had collected false facts at the wrong* Mrs. Weed's funeral and had wired them on as truth; mourned also for a telegraph editor who had sent the story to a busy copy desk without verification; mourned too for a night managing editor whose function it is (no matter what the shortcomings of his underlings) to edit and put out a perfect paper...
...Author. Mark Sullivan's life has run parallel to the lives of the men he writes about. As they reached distinction, he has reached distinction in observing them, writing about them, summing up their achievements. He was born in Pennsylvania, 53 years ago. After he left Harvard in 1900, he went into newspaper work. From 1904 to 1906 he practised law in Manhattan. He has since then become perhaps the most capable captain in the army of newspaper correspondents who report and explain the turmoil of Washington politics. For five years (1912-1917) he edited Collier's Weekly...