Word: montee
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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CAMBRIC TEA - Rebecca Lowrie - Harpers ($2.00). Author Lowrie has re- membered a few intensely recognizable bits of childhood: her stray animals' cemetery, with a particularly fine brick for canary David's headstone; her turning agnostic because no God smote her for saying "golly-golly-golly" all through church...
The murder of Don Ramon Valdez, the plot of Orsini to break the bank at Monte Carlo, the final hunt for the Apache Latouche, two crimes of the "perfect murderer," Hanoi Shan, and others, are all told in a clear, concise, not undramatic fashion. They are tales of detection at...
Last week another woman, name of Peggy Cleary, applied for a seat on the New York Stock Exchange. Apparently she has the two major qualifications for admission to the most expensive and least exclusive club in the world: $375,000, and that firmness of jaw possessed by exquisite, merciless croupiers...
Divorce Suit Rumored. Emily Charlotte (Lillie) Langtry, Lady De Bathe, 75, stage beauty of a generation ago; and her husband, Sir Hugo Gerald De Bathe, 56, of Monte Carlo. The "Jersey Lily," friend of King Edward VII and many another famed Victorian, emerged from a decade of retirement last year...
The Garden of Eden. Toni Le Brun was fired from a smoke-blue Paris cabaret because she was naïvely virtuous. The wardrobe mistress (Louise Dresser), one of those quaint impoverished baronesses, adopted her, took her to Monte Carlo where the pair lived for a month on the savings of...