Word: manly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...MAN WHO RANG THE BELL- Milward Kennedy-Crime Club ($2). The doorbell rang, and when the door was opened a corpse propped against the outside fell into the apartment. The man who answered the bell had been talking over the telephone when the bell rang- the girl at the other end of the wire vouched for that. Bloody gloves were found in the night porter's pocket. One groundfloor tenant was a notorious jewel thief. The landlord and the top-floor married couple were also suspects. The murderer, like everyone else, was, indeed, indoors-where any of Author Kennedy...
...traffic. The native African, says he, is a "banana engine" making the roads of a continent at the expense of his life. He may work a month on banana fuel, then find himself owing eleven francs because of huge taxes. Other Londres observations: 1) in French Africa a white man who strikes a black gets fined 25 francs; 2) native Africans practice true communism; 3) all Europe's old clothes and junk are sold to Africans; 4) the Negro is a football between African commerce and politics; 5) Senegalese World War veterans keep letters from French women addressed...
...believable. Mr. and Mrs. Garrett McCarthy Dillon lived in the Ireland of Napoleon's day. When Garrett announced that duty called him to the aid of England's Lord Castlereagh, Mrs. Dillon declared that she would have none of her husband if he insisted on serving a man who had caused her pro-Irish uncle to be hanged. Needless to say, they were rejoined after Garrett had several times been wounded, and Author Byrne had avoided a solution of his original problem. But in this last novel he wove, as ever, the Hibernian, theatrical beauty of a style...
...child that it achieves its greatest significance. Love is more maligned in literature than any other emotion, by romantic distortion on the one hand, by carnal diminution on the other. But Author Hemingway knows it at its best to be a blend of desire, serenity, and wordless sympathy. His man and woman stand incoherently together against a shattered, dissolving world. They express their feelings by such superficially trivial things as a joke, a gesture in the night, an endearment as trite as "darling." And as they make their escape from Italy in a rowboat, survey the Alps from their hillside...
...Charles Eliot Norton Chair of Poetry founded by C. C. Stillman '98, was first held in 1926-27 by Gilbert Murray, Requis Professor of Greek at Oxford, world famous classicist and man of letters. He was followed in 1927-28 by Professor Eric R. Maclagan, Director and Secretary of the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. Last year the chair was vacant...