Word: nymph
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...NYMPH ERRANT?James Laver ? Knopf...
...Bergman caught trout on a wet fly by allowing it to sink, judging the depth by counting to a certain number, then striking on the supposition that a fish had taken his fly. Also extraordinary is his method of fishing a stream with a gft. leader, with three flies: nymph (to represent larva) at the bottom, a wet fly above it. with a Royal Coachman at the top to serve as a marker for a strike at one of the lower flies. Most fishermen will find that they have tried one or more of Author Bergman's tricks with...
...this brutal and reckless fashion." The 5 bothers him particularly. He reproduces its black bulk on one page followed for comparison by seven 55 from the fonts of celebrated designers. Overleaf is a little drawing of a fat harridan leaning against the Treasury's figure while a slender nymph stands by a modern 5 of Dwiggins design. Then he says...
...Hugh Allen's famous Bach choir. After she took her degree she was commissioned to write a modern European history textbook (A Century of Revolution) over which she spent two years, from which she gained much useful writing practice. With her second published novel (The Constant Nymph, 1924) she became a bestseller. Very English-looking, with dark hair parted in the middle and ending in ear-protecting buns, with a head that rises to a point and sinks to chinlessness, Margaret Kennedy's face is not as attractive as her writing; but you can tell by her eyes...
...Albert Sanger died, Tessa died, Lewis Dodd went back to the efficient arms of Florence Churcill, whom he had married without knowing exactly why. With things that way The Constant Nymph ended; the story of the Sanger family, Sanger's circus, seemed to be over. But Tessa's brothers, Sebastian and Caryl, were left. The Fool of the Family tells about them. With these two so different Sangers Margaret Kennedy continues the story that The Constant Nymph started...