Word: postern
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...Burr, Vidal (1 last week) 2-Come Nineveh, Come Tyre, Drury (2) 3-I Heard the Owl Call My Name, Craven (10) 4-Postern of Fate, Christie (9) 5-The Honorary Consul, Greene (3) 6-Theophilus North,Wilder (4) 7-The Loo Sanction, Trevanian (8) 8-The Hollow Hills,Stewart (7) 9- The First Deadly Sin, Sanders (6) 10- Tuesday The Rabbi Saw Red, Kemelman...
...Postern of Fate, Christie...
...Postern of Fate, Christie...
...from Ghent to Aix into a toy designed to preserve the spoken word upon a wax-covered cylinder. All went well until the poet came to the words, "Speed! echoed the . . ." Then he hesitated, and said: "I forget it." Upon being prompted, however, he went on: "Behind shut the postern, the lights sank to rest." Again the poet paused, and presently said: "I am exceedingly sorry that I cannot remember my own verses, but one thing I shall remember all my life is the astonishing sensation produced upon me by your wonderful invention, Mr. Edison...
...sending home 3,000 of 27,000 civilian doctors who were mobilized for service in the West. Perhaps spring will find some of these doctors in French Syria with Weygand's Army, ready to stem a Russian march into Bessarabia, or to drive at Germany through the postern gate of erstwhile Poland...