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Author Elizabeth M. Delafield (Dashwood) is partly French, has lived in the Malay States, but her books are all of English country and life. Her work has had a moderate, steadily increasing success in the U. S. A keen, faintly satirical observer, in Turn Back the Leaves she has written a tragedy of frustration too deep for satire. During the War, Author Delafield did Red Cross work, wrote her first novel in her spare time. She lives in Devonshire. Other books: Mrs. Harter, The Chip and the Block, Jill, The Way Things Are, First Love...
...Others of these minuscule peoples, whom bigger intruders have driven from their original homes along the Congo, have learned the speech of their neighbors wherever they have secreted themselves successfully enough to persist-in Africa's interior, along the upper Congo, in Ceylon, the Bay of Bengal, the Malay Peninsula, the Philippines...
...Mather on their recent tour visited the Near East, India, China, Japan, Java, the Malay States, and Hawaii...
...during almost every other major English sporting event this season, it rained last week during the British Amateur Golf Championship in Sandwich. The weather made antic the play of visiting golfers from the U. S., Canada, France, South Africa, India, Australia, New Zealand, Mesopotamia, the Malay States. Edward of Wales watched for a while, then amused himself 'by practicing some drives of his own, employing the methods taught him last month by British Open Champion Walter Hagen. Said he: "At last I have learned to play golf," but he did not enter the tournament...
...Jade God. When John Millicent stole a jade figurine out of a Hindoo temple, its baleful influence followed him to Sussex where, one evening, he was discovered lying across his desk, his throat slit. The figurine had disappeared as well as a Malay kriss which he used for a paper weight. Then Jack Derrick, who loved daughter Jean Millicent, set out to find the murderer of her father. During the process people peered through doors and curtains, a wall panel opened emitting smoke and a greenish glow, girls shrieked, the figurine shone and spoke in the darkness. Even the portrait...