Word: pentland
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Henry John Sinclair, oiler, came by the Mauretania. Oiler Sinclair, 21, is also 2nd Baron Pentland, grandson of the Marquess of Aberdeen, not to be confused with Oilman Harry Ford Sinclair. Like Oilman Sinclair, Oiler Sinclair avoids cricket. Unlike Oilman Sinclair, Oiler Sinclair enjoys crossing the Atlantic in the engine room of a liner. Observed Lord Pentland, democratically: "I found the crew ... a fine lot of men." After lavishing $3.95 upon Manhattan gayeties ($3.85 for a theatre ticket, 10? for subway fare), he returned on the Mauretania to Frognal End, Frognal Gardens, Hampstead, N.W.3., London, England...
...CANNOT DIE- Thames Williamson-Small Maynard ($2.50). Strange and wonderful people appear in this strange and wonderful book. Richard Bacon, debonair and demoniac son of Alchemist Roger Bacon, visits Philadelphia about 1830. He is 567 years old. There he injects Arthur Pentland, young Pittsburgh snob, with the elixir of life.* Soon after, he breaks his neck, being no longer useful to Author Williamson Arthur Pentland, who as a child suffered from night fears and grew up to love only his mother (now dead), soon marries a girl that reminds him of his mother. Being ageless, however, he outlives...