Word: partings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Mamba's Daughters tells of big, awkward, blundering, childlike Hagar (Ethel Waters) and her passionate, inarticulate love for her daughter, Lissa. Her dream is to make a lady of Lissa. But a misstep on the girl's part threatens her reputation. To keep it intact the frantic mother commits both murder and suicide...
Married to Michael shortly before he sailed in 1913 to become British vice consul at Baltimore, she suddenly gave her motto a new focus. From then on she resisted her Protestant upbringing and Michael. It is this part of the story which is enough to scare male readers about literate wives and mistresses-a recital of love affairs, bedroom lyricism, plate throwing, tongue lashings, a self-righteous exposure of everything from Michael's lack of ambition to his dirty hairbrushes...
...Part ancient Irish saga, part blarney, Sons of the Swordmaker, by Maurice Walsh (Stokes, $2.50), concerns the five sons of Orugh the Swordmaker. They are an accomplished bunch. Delgaun lops the head off of fabled Fergus the Killer, wins an enigmatic redhead named Alor. Flann One-Hand wanders over Ireland itself, gets mixed up with Fer Rogain, Conaire the King, cools a rustic spitfire named Dairne. Most adventurous part of the tale is the oldtime Gaelic talk: Says Delgaun of Alor: "She has red hair and she stays in a man's mind. Brief enough, but enough. She draws...
...first match of the afternoon saw the two captains meeting to decide and old duel at least for the present, as Capt. Foshay of the Tigers gained a decision over Captain Harvey Ross of the Crimson team in the overtime. Ross seemed in have the advantage for the first part of the match, but Foshay kept escaping from Ross with a smoothly working reverse switch. Finally in the overtime of what seemed to be an impossible bout to decide, Foshay received the nod from the referee an the wrestler who showed the greatest aggressiveness...
Kerins first became interested in Brookline education when he took five years to complete a four-year high school course there. "This is the case with 45 per cent of Brookline's high school students." he stated last night. "This situation is due to inefficiency and incompetence on the part of our school committee. Besides, the annual per capita is $150, the highest in the Commonwealth...