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Dates: during 1930-1939
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They live in row houses one block long, keep their windows closed and shades down to prevent the entry of dust . . . and sunshine. Their main items of diet: potatoes, cabbage and squash let them grow beyond the limits of plumpness. They mistrust science and its balanced meal and vitamin instruction, are susceptible to goitre...
...Main feature of Raleigh romances has been that, since none of the brides could speak English and none of the bridegrooms French, all have been conducted in a "sign language," about the efficacy of which, through an interpreter, brides and bridegrooms last week were equally enthusiastic...
...private cell. The cells will be so arranged that any inmate who chisels his way out will find himself in either the next cell or a corridor. Between each prisoner and freedom will be a dozen locks, electrically controlled from a tower on the wall of the main circle. Gates of each unit will be so adjusted that no two can be open simultaneously. The whole structure will be enclosed by a circular tool resistant 12-ft. wire mesh fence. Cost of Pennsylvania's Mt. Gretna will be $2.020,000. If PWA approves, construction will start by next December...
...instead when tired of the front-lawn and front-street side of English life to search in some other part of the world, especially where the climate is warm. As a traveler, Yorkshireman Eric Knight is no exception to the rest. As a writer he bristles with exceptions, the main one being that he has uncovered in a neglected corner of England's industrial back yard-the Yorkshire textile mill country-material for one of the sturdiest novels to cross the Atlantic this year. English critics have compared Song on Your Bugles with the work of a diverse list...
...made in time." Whether or not her unraveling of that knot and its ensuing threads will please all masculine readers, it is an exploration of legend that turns up many a psychological find, pieces together many a broken sherd of human nature. Laura Riding does not tamper with the main outline of Troy's well-known story. But she finds the clue to the Trojan War not in Paris' seduction of Helen but in the opposing temperaments of the Greeks, whose civilization is on the make, and the Trojans, whose civilization is (in the best sense) finished...