Word: loves
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...opportunity to write floridly about departed social glories. The dead woman's father was Ayres P. Merrill, a friend of President Grant who sent him to Brussels. Oldtimers vaguely recall that Miss Merrill was presented at the Court of St. James. She was supposed to have been in love with Duncan Minor, who traced his lineage back to a Spanish Governor of the Louisiana territory, but they never married. For reasons unknown she withdrew to "Glenburney," the trim white family home a mile out from Natchez on the Kingston Road. A woman of means, she affected old-fashioned dress...
...GOOD MAN'S LOVE-E. M. Delafield -Harper...
...almost always amusing flavor. But this time the leaves are not quite fresh, the brew is a little bitter. Usually she manages to be not too true to life to be funny. But unless you can laugh at locksmiths you will find nothing in A Good Man's Love to hold your sides over...
...call of the mild and returned to the provinces to be a petty lawyer, she cut him out of her system. Edmond, son of a potent international banker, caught her on the rebound and asked her to marry him, though he could give her only a banker's love. Denise took him, hoped she could make him into a world-force. But his father thought one in the family was enough, kept him subordinate as long as he could...
...BURNING BUSH-Sigrid Und-set-Knopf ($2.50). THE FAMILY CIRCLE-Andre Mau-rois-Appleton ($2.50). A GOOD MAN'S LOVE-E. M. Dela-field-Harper ($2.50). THE JOURNEY INWARD - Kurt Heuser-Viking ($2.50). CHARLOTTE BRONTE-E. F. Benson -Longmans, Green ($4). A not unfriendly debunking of the tense Bronte household by the expert Victorianographer of As We Were...