Word: marly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...BOOMERANG CLUE-Agatha Christie-Dodd, Mead ($2). Few constables and no Scotland Yard men mar the course of detecting by young Bobby and his girl Frankie. Romance survives near-murder, drug ring, kidnappers, a motor "accident." Too soon comes a nicely individual ending. THE THREE COFFINS-John Dickson Carr-Harper ($2). Dr. Fell almost makes an error while pursuing an illusionist. There is a new method of murder in a locked room, a bit of dry humor in the plot. MURDER AT HIGH NOON-Paul McGuire-Crime Club ($2). Murder of a newshawk brings out "the perfect crime"; a final...
...most cases, misfortunes which may mar a boy's whole college course might have been eliminated by some guidance during the first weeks of his college career...
Afterward he told newshawks: "It was all magnificent. I did not see any incident or anything to mar the beautiful warmth of the reception." What Minister Owsley was so careful to explain he had not seen was a small riot of Irish Communists along his route to Dublin Castle. The burden of the Communist hullabaloo was, with magnificent irrelevancy, "RELEASE TOM MOONEY." Ostensibly because the California Supreme Court has turned down Tom Mooney's appeals four times, the Irish Reds threw around leaflets saying, "Owsley does not represent the American people and therefore can not expect cead mille failte...
Said the New York Times's Edward Alden Jewell: "The mural is to a very large extent drearily static . . . intensified by the washed-out color, dryly and scratchily applied. ... As a critic and man of letters Walter Pach rises brilliantly, clear of the defects that mar his work as an artist...
...train killed Bartholomew C. Ryan on his way home from the race. On Commonwealth Avenue, one Edward Redman collapsed from a heart attack. Loudest cheers from spectators at what has been called the crudest sporting spectacle in the U. S. were heard for 46-year-old Clarence De Mar, Keene (N. H.) schoolteacher, who first won the race in 1911 and six times thereafter and who still regularly totters out to his annual day of notoriety. Last week, Runner De Mar finished 18th in a field...