Word: loves
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...calling as thoroughly as his hero. Slim, mastered the job of wire stringing. The tale is by turns hardboiled, sentimental, tragic, humorous. But the toughness, the sentiment, the tragedy and the humor all belong to a man's world. Pride of work comes first, play second, true love a lame third...
...meets the fate of many another good lineman while working with "hot" wire. Brokenhearted, Slim shelves construction for work on an electric railroad. The depression comes. Construction ceases and maintenance is cut to the minimum. Slim, during one of his periodic spells in the hospital, has fallen in love with his nurse. But when she tries to get him to take a softer job, he rebels. Even out of work Slim remains the heroic lineman. They would need him, he figures, even during the revolution...
...story is one of liquor, love and fights, of the Lantenengo Street smart set of Gibbsville, of the town's underworld. Julian and Caroline English, married four years and still in love with each other, attend a Christmas Eve party at the Lantenengo Country Club. There Julian gets drunk, dashes his highball into the fat face of the richest man in town whose stories are a bore. Result: a black eye for the richest man in town, new enemies for Julian, a fight with Caroline...
...constantly baffled by the problems confronting a pedagog in the English public school. While masters worry over problems of faith and dogma, of pedagogy and discipline, of finances and families, the boys concern themselves with cricket, standing, good form, smut and tormenting "Wearie Willie." Young Middleton falls in love with "Tired Tim's" blithe young daughter and after certain vicissitudes marches bravely off to war. Bill Sikes is expelled for torturing young Carmichael who achieves top place in the form. Bill Sikes has nothing against young Carmichael. He is only annoyed to find his own name in last place...
GRAMMAR OF LOVE-Ivan Bunin-Smith & Haas ($2). Ten characteristic short stories by the author of The Gentleman from San Francisco and 1933 winner of the Nobel Prize...