Word: lifes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President shall serve more than two terms. All living ex-Presidents and all Supreme Court Justices over 70 shall automatically become members of a foreign policy board, for life, to advise the incumbent President on and to help administer the foreign policy of the U. S. A., especially during campaign years and while administrations are changing...
...George, tiny, tenacious, hopeful ex-sailor-prospector-typesetter and future author of Progress and Poverty, wrote on spiritualism and phrenology as well as political economy. Yellow Bird (John Rollin Ridge), half-Cherokee son of a Georgia plantation owner, contributed the West's most famous folk tale in The Life & Adventures of Joaquin Murieta, the Celebrated California Bandit. Most talented woman writer was tall, dark-eyed Ina Donna Coolbrith, sweetheart of the writing colony, who kept her past a dark secret because she was the niece of Mormon prophet Joseph Smith...
...suspicious natives to visit school and dispensary. His peacock of an heir, 17-year-old General Dilip Rai, came to special lessons redolent with perfume. Soon the nuns found their work too absorbing. Sister Phillippa's request for transfer, because she had put her garden before her religious life, gave the first warning. But it took the twin tragedy of death in convent and village before Sister Clodagh admitted her mistake, asked for recall...
Novelist Godden is 31, has spent most of her life in India, knows her hill country. Little happens in Black Narcissus, but the charm of the characters, and their talk, keep the story moving. U. S. readers will find few better novels for hammock reading this summer...
...tells how Lydia Kenyon, wife of a $50,000-a-year Manhattan adman, discovered her husband was sleeping with his business, broke up that romance by curing him of the desire to be a big shot. The novel's dialogue ("She's a woman, she's life itself -she makes the grass grow, see? She's a skylark"), its improbable characters and adroit situations, may sound more convincing on the stage than in print. Manhattanites may have a chance to find out next autumn, when ebullient Gertrude Lawrence, who toured in the play last spring, opens...