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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...following skiing conditions were reported. Mount Moosilauke 26 inches Mount Washington 36 inches Franconia 15 inches Chosorue 15 inches Mount Cardigan Conditions Poor...
...district from which he springs, Antelope Mountain, is poor and frugal; its people are poor and frugal also, and their poverty is as much spiritual as material. The old problem of outgrowing one's own people, and with them one's early love, has been presented by Mr. Fisher with great power. In Vridar the impact of a new life has not yet been resolved; part of him can never be of Antelope Mountain, and part of him can not belong to Neloa Doole, whom he goes back to marry in the end, but he is closer...
...words of Pericles, be most completely and most gracefully self-sufficient in the face of the most varied circumstances. I know that I am not speaking for myself alone when I say that I had rather send forth one such man than be the lauded agent in dragging the poor bones of the dead from the oblivion to which they are committed by time's kindly hand. Alston H. Chase...
Elinor Norton is a poor little rich girl of the pre-War period. Her mother's plans for her do not include marriage to Carroll, summer neighbor who tells the story. Carroll is always in love with Elinor, but she is too much under her mother's thumb to feel affection for anybody. When her mother arranges a match with Socialite Lloyd Norton, it goes through as planned. Elinor and Carroll, moving in different social worlds, drift apart. After the War he meets her again, sees that her marriage is a failure. Lloyd has become an impotent neurotic...
...DEATH WISH-Elisabeth Sanxay Holding-Dodd, Mead ($2). Long Island society, his neighbors and his rich wife are too much for poor, ponderous Delancey. Had it not been for the calm young guest next door, he might have been convicted of two murders...