Word: macaulay
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...NATURAL MOTHER-Dominique Dunois-Macaulay ($2.50). This book was awarded the 1929 Prix Femina-Vie Heureuse, a cash prize of 5,000 francs offered annually by the two French magazines of that name. That it won the prize merely indicates that the French are not always so gay. Neither a cheerful nor an aphrodisiac story, its flaming jacket suggests that at least it has its lickerish moments. Not so. A stout French peasant lass, Georgette Garou, knows what she wants and goes after it with few words and indomitable dignity. She wants to keep her farm, to get a husband...
...AMERICAN CARAVAN-Edited by Alfred Kreymborg, Lewis Mumford, Paul Rosenfeld-Macaulay...
Famous men guided the Review on its iconoclastic career. Historian Thomas Babington Macaulay, once the magazine's star reviewer, was known as "chief executioner." Essayist William Hazlitt, Novelist William Makepeace Thackeray, Prophet Thomas Carlyle, Novelist Walter Scott were contributors...
...Macaulay's schoolboy were living today, he undoubtedly could name the nation's largest bank. It was last winter's series of mergers which made people conscious of bank sizes, so that now even businessmen know that the National City is U. S. biggest...
...DERUGA TRIAL-Ricarda Huch- Macaulay ($2). Murder mystery with three differences: 1) it is written by a German woman of 65 ; 2) depending little on suspense, it has a sympathetic main character in an excitable Italian doctor on trial for murdering his cancer-stricken wife out of pity; 3) the doctor's vivacity is opposed, humorously, psychologically, to Teutonic judicial phlegm...