Word: mix
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...greatest Scandinavian man of letters was born, just a century ago, the son of a bankrupt merchant in the small Norwegian town of Skien. As a boy Henrik Ibsen was apprenticed to an apothecary and helped to grind powders, make pills and mix possets. Because he did not stick to that trade, but became a great poet and a greater dramatist, all Norway united, last week, to honor his birth-cen tenary with impressive ceremonies and revivals of his greatest plays at Oslo, Norwegian capital, and in Bergen, the sea port where he lived and labored for the theatre...
AMBITION - Arthur Train - Scribner's ($2.50). Simon Kent gets along in the world. Why? 1) He is a graduate of Harvard Law School and an asset to a law firm that handles shady cases for a potent oil corporation; 2) his wife knows how to mix cocktails for his employer. After four years, Simon gets tired of getting along, particularly when he finds out that his wife had duped him into marriage after having an illegitimate child by another man. Honest, basically upright Simon obtains a divorce, a wholesome job, a new and true wife. Author Train tells...
...Hartley was given the Leviathan in 1923 ahead of "Handsome Harry" Cunningham-gasped because Hartley was then jobless after grounding first the Manchuria and then the Mongolia of the American Line, whereas Cunningham was right in line for the post, being skipper of the George Washington-were inclined to mix sympathy with their blame last week. "It was jolly bad work," said one of them, "but jolly worse luck. On his very first trip, too-tch, tch. Maybe Hartley left his luck on that Leviathan...
...COMMAND TO LOVE-In which European diplomats, no dull boys, mix work inextricably with play (TIME...
...England we're slipping. I'll bo the biggest gun this town ever produced if I can get the shoe manufacturies to this town. We ought to have a fighting admiral in the Navy Department, not an Annapolis grad. Damn shame politics and the Navy have to mix up. When I'm a little older...