Word: loing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...simply that William Demarest, young U. S. writer and moral coward, sails second class for England to see Cynthia Battiloro, whom he worships but thinks he loves. He is tempted on shipboard by Mrs. Faubion, a fellow-passenger in the second class, but resists her frankly sensual charms; when lo! stealing a walk on the first class promenade, he encounters Cynthia, who announces her engagement to someone else. Demarest slinks back to his own deck writes Cynthia a series of decreasingly abject letters, none of which he sends, and before docking has let Mrs. Faubion enter his stateroom. Flood novel...
...defi to the world, but an expose of what Premier Mussolini believes to be the wreck of Lo-carno-this was suppressed, not by the Fascist censor but by the gentlemen of the U. S. press...
Unexpected is hardly the word for that ending, it is fabulous! Lo, what does our good Walter do but marry the girl, and settle down to a life as a farmer, leaving his great financial business, his New York apartment and his four menservants in the lurch. The reader is expected to sympathize with this move, and, if the experience of the reviewer is any criterion, fails pitifully. All this despite the assistance of a scene at the end, when a New York swell of Mr. Overlook's acquaintance hits the trail to Maine to find out what has happened...
...MADNESS ? Anonymous?Bobbs Merrill ($2.50). The author of Miss Tiverton Goes Out still wishes to remain anonymous. Her critics still fatten their admiration upon their curiosity. Critic William Lyon Phelps, politely rebuffed by her publishers, went ahunting "this superior intelligence" by himself, and discovered its identity. But lo! when he came to divulge her name, it had escaped him. Said he: "A name totally unknown to English and American letters. It might have been Miss Abercrombie or, for that matter, Miss Fitch...
...Masaomi Hirayama, priest of Buddha, author of admired tracts concerning The Four Noble Truths and The Holy Eightfold Path, was gravely congratulated by his fellow priests, last week, on having observed for 48 years those virtues which caused the ancient sages to exclaim : "Serene and blessed is the Buddha. . . . Lo, so many distinguished nobles lead now a religious life under the direction of the Blessed One that fathers will soon beget no more children...