Word: patchwork
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...surprised by it. More than that, we were mollified. In such a frame of mind it is hard to get eye-to-eye and cheek-by-jowl with an author's intentions, supposing that he has some. And so, in trying to line up a few impressions of "The Patchwork Madonna" we are at more than a usual loss...
...Patchwork Madonna", Mr. Weston makes use of two central characters, a psycho-analyst and his patient, the London actress, Creda Reid. The chapters consist of the progressive consultations in the treatment of her case. And since the actress is indeed a pretty well tattered madonna, a certain amount of interest is attached to her explanations of the origins of her hates and loves. She is described as tall, supple, and of "almost tigerish strength." When we add that she speaks in a husky voice and uses tangerine perfume, any reader familiar with One-a-minute-Oppenheim can visualize the type...
...contemporary light essays made by David McCord '21, which is released today, will also be reviewed in tomorrow's Bookshelf. Other books on the list include "It's a Great War", by Mary Lee, "In Princeton Town", by Day Edgar; "Mud and Glory", by James M. Melville, "The Patchwork Madonna", by Harold Weston, "River House", by Stark Young, and "Invitation to Danger", by Alfred Stanford...
...Hoover program: 1). A consolidation of inland waterways into one system, with no more "patchwork of disconnected local improvements [which] has in the past been the sink for hundreds of millions of public money...
...South America. The original lectures now appear in book form to make pleasant if somewhat disappointing reading. From the mass of anecdote that has accumulated about the figure of the famed 16th Century Gascon, Lecturer France has gleaned the few bits that seem authentic and pieced them into the patchwork of Rabelais' vagabond life. Scholar and classicist, Francois Rabelais nevertheless defied Hippocrates, the Church and prevailing custom, to the extent of publicly dissecting a man who had been hanged. But the fascination of science waned. He divided his time between the hospital and the printing press. "At the Sign...