Word: maining
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...divine whimsicality which now sends men voyaging through the fogs of the Atlantic in tiny planes like the Spirit of St. Louis. Were Conrad still living he would see in this what he saw in the passsage of the Narcissus. It smacks of the hardboiled days of the Spanish Main; it has no touch of the mauve decade. And thus, if for no other reason, is it worth while...
...general interest. The lecturers themselves can be entertained in the small building two stories high, which Mr. Rogers has designed for their accommodation. To provide for the development of procedural work, a practice court room and judge's chambers are to be placed in the first floor of the main building...
Sailing dates have been completed. The main body will leave New York on the Mauretania on June 15, will spend eight weeks in Russia and two in Europe. Those who cannot sail with this group will sail on the Berengaria on June 29th, will spend six and a half weeks in Russia and two in Europe. The delegation will return to New York on September 8; making it a 12 week trip for the main group and a ten week trip for the late group...
...Muir's first novel has something of the structural development of a fugue. Its main theme is the simple story of Hans, an idiot boy, who at first is feared and loathed by Martin Scheffer, his father, but when Emma, the nurse, undertakes to bring the two together on the occasion of the child's fourteenth birthday, there is an ensuing successful rapport, and she loses hold over her old charge. But this strain is supported by the introduction of a supplementary force, for Hans sees the marionettes play Faust, and these dolls soon people his world, absorb his life...
...background and general atmosphere is again London. The main jumble of the plot starts before the war in Vardon's house at Liverpool. We are introduced to his ten year old daughter Venetia, to Peter Serle, a young man, but already a member of Parliament, and to a uselessly rich Jew. Then we jump to London during the war. Venetia has just come home from school, and Serle, always close to her, is her devoted friend. At a houseparty she meets Saville, a young author, and dislikes him intensely. Six years later, Ysabel, American musical comedy star, enters the book...