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...Kyoto. But from the moment he first spied her picture outside the Ono-Tei teahouse, George D. Morgan (son of J. P. Sr.'s sister Sarah and a distant cousin, George Hale Morgan) thought more & more of fragile, fragrant O-Yuki and less & less of a frosty Miss Meta Mackay, who had broken her engagement to him back in the States...
Final Round. In Los Angeles, Mrs. Meta Drinkwine sued husband Elmer for a divorce, complained that he "drank excessively...
...Miss Meta Smith of Abbeville, South Carolina, who is substituting this week for Mrs. Marion S. Hambleton, the regular House Secretary, was taken completely by surprise when she reported for work at 2 o'clock in the afternoon. "Are they putting in a new floor? I have lots of work to do," was her first reaction...
...Stark and Huey Long and have claimed that Warren has exalted Long by his treatment of Stark's character. This criticism is beside the point. The novel in no-wise constitutes an apologia for Long or for the South and to say that it does is to ignore the meta-physical side of Warren's thought. For despite the novel's immersion in a vast welter of detail about Southern life, "All The King's men" is fundamentally a parable of Evil...
Upton Sinclair has never broken himself of the colonizing habit. He went to Single Tax colonies at Fairhope, Ala. and Arden, Del. In 1909 it was "Physical Culture City" at Battle Creek, Mich., a health centre run by Bernarr Macfadden. At Battle Creek, discontented Meta Sinclair met Poet Harry Kemp, with whom she eloped two years later. And at Battle Creek, Upton Sinclair met his second wife, Mary Craig Kimbrough, daughter of a wealthy judge of Greenwood, Miss. When they were married in 1913, Judge Kimbrough, who had no more use for a Socialist than for a Republican, turned...