Word: pinned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...PIN TO SEE THE PEEPSHOW?F. Tennyson Jesse ? Doubleday, Doran ($2.50). Readers who know that Fryn Tennyson Jesse is a woman, the grandniece of the late Alfred, Lord Tennyson and a versatile author in her own right, will expect something unusual from A Pin to See the Peepshow. Readers to whom she is not even a name may be agreeably surprised at the bright zest of its introductory pages, increasingly depressed as its long middle section threatens to turn hopelessly humdrum. But they will do well to persevere. From boring realism the story finally emerges into agonizing, deeply moving...
...experience as telephonic operators but who did not need the positions in order to earn their support. In as much as these women did not arrange or expect to hold permanent positions but had merely seized upon the opportunity offered them of earning a little extra pin money, the necessary loss of their positions will not increase the number of unsupported unemployed...
...deserted him. 2) Alfonso XIII was rumored to have made in Rome the first move in his long-rumored project of obtaining from Mother Church an annulment of his marriage to ex-Queen Victoria of Spain, first cousin of George V. 3) Prince Juan, on whom Spanish Royalists now pin their hopes as "the only available son of Alfonso XIII,"* was declared to be engaged to none other than Lady Helen Stewart, beauteous third daughter of Lord and Lady Londonderry...
...liked to eat, it responded with a minute-long discourse on the virtues of toast made with Macy's automatic electric toaster. Finally when May requested the creature to raise its arm and fire the pistol, the arm went up, the metal forefinger pulled the trigger, the firing-pin fell with a click. Professor May explained that store officials would not permit him to use blank cartridges...
...Triangular Meet and holder of the present record on the new course, is given a slight edge over the field, with Minor and Woodland of Yale expected to give him his hardest competition. Hogan of Princeton has given an excellent showing in Princeton's three races, and the Tigers pin their hopes on him to win for Nassau