Word: nicholases
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Following hard on the heels of the four long turgid romances that make up The Berries Chronicle, Hugh Walpole's new novel reverts to his lighter vein. A Modern Comedy he calls this yarn of a present-day scalawag who, with the manners of Prince Charming and the soul of...
Last week Secretary of Agriculture Wallace pushed his land reclamation program ahead another notch by organizing a party to search for a grass hardy enough to grow in the drought-made deserts of the Midwest. To head the party he chose a Russian-born mystic who has spent most of...
In Patras, Greece, Nicholas Djirdjis flunked his final examinations in high school. Revolver in hand, he sought out the principal, demanded his diploma. As the diploma was being signed, two teachers came into the room. Nicholas fired, missed, went off to the police station, still without his diploma.
Sure enough, Evening won. But the joy of his thousands of backers turned sour as Bolsheviks learned what happens in pari-mutuels when a favorite wins. After the State had taken its fat percentage there was just enough left to return to each better on Evening exactly the sum he...
The climax came in a second battle. Police closed in upon a crowd of 2,000 strikers from both ends of Steuart Street. In the van of the mob were Howard Sperry and Nicholas Bordloise, longshoremen. Police fired at the fleeing crowd. There was a wild pounding of feet. Police...