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...these the laws which Homer gave? Figures cut from a fashion magazine pasted on canvas, geometric background: "Street In Montevidco", Norah Borges... By Lurcat, reinder horns growing out of earth tall as trees; a leaf large as a mountain, "Paysage Romantique"... One steer's head, one girl's head, a railroad track, one prairie, in oil and framed, "Paysage Andalou," by Jose Moreno Villa... And it was with profound regret that the Vagabond saw his friend's portrait, Edwin Arlington Robinson, taken down and replaced with a portrait which resembles the Vagabond's hag-in all respect dear women...
...work was more important than individual brilliance; confessions were better than the most artful chains of circumstantial evidence; medical analysis was tricky and unreliable, since doctors often disagreed. Greatest anticlimax of Cornish's professional career came when a young signboard fixer named Field confessed to the murder of Norah Upchurch. Scotland Yard had only circumstantial evidence against Field, suspected when Norah Upchurch's body was first discovered, and the coroner's jury returned a verdict of murder against some person unknown. No progress had been made until Field dramatically confessed. Brought to trial he played hob with...
...since 1925. She studied in Kansas City's Art Institute, at the Art Students League in New York and in Chicago where she met her Painter-Husband Eduard Buk Ulreich. Buk Ulreich nicknamed her Nura because he "never calls people by their right names." Her right name is Norah Woodson Ulreich. When she and her husband do murals together they sign them Bukannura. Living in a Manhattan studio, they have no children because Nura feels a real one might engross her to the point that she could not paint imaginary ones...
...England conscience which was always shutting her out. In the end, when he persuaded her to prefer abortion to motherhood, it was he who was shut out. Jeffrey, whose time was spent getting himself seduced against a literary background, had luckily acquired a solid woman in his wife Norah. He was always thankful to come home to her, but neither would he let her have any baby but himself. Bruno was a too-coherent professor whose Jewish intelligence paralyzed his will. When the Magazine he loved to talk about starting finally came to the point of starting...
SACRIFICE-Norah C. James-Covici, Friede ($2.50). Novel of suburban realism by the British author of Sleeveless Errand, Jealousy...