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Frightened by the glint in Joe Jordan's eye, Mae Jordan sought work, found none for a child so inexperienced and anemic as herself. Desperate, she begged odd jobs of baby tending, dish washing, floor scrubbing from residents in the apartment. One November day she sought her father radiant: "Mr. Klein and Mr. Platz want me to 'do' their apartment every day for $10 a month...
...spectrum were faithfully reproduced, delicately shaded even at the violet (short wave) end. The inventor, Herr Professor Emil Wolff-Heide, was hailed by colleagues for having made "the greatest advance in photochemical research of the decade." The cinema public waited to see its evening's joy illuminated with radiant sunsets, hot colloquial color, ravishing flesh tints...
...been learning from the Continental masters. One of the first pieces they paused before was a bronze "Aphrodite" by Sculptor Rudolph Evans, the young man from the Corcoran Gallery in Washington whose "Golden Hour" won him a medal and fame at the salon of 1914 and now reposes, a radiant study of adolescent gravity, in a specially lighted domed room at the home of Banker Frank A. Vanderlip...
...Davis & Co.) for the benefit of the legal and medical professions, since 1900. They are technical books by an artist who acquired his technique because he conceived sex to be, not the sole, but the central factor of life. They are the scientific basis for his doctrine of "radiant carnality" In later work (The World of Dreams) Ellis anticipated the Freudian discovery that spiritual energy is as indestructible as material...
...Robert Haven Schauffler-Macmillan ($2). Mr. Schauffler is an unregenerate word-and-phrase addict, or more politely, a poetic philologist. Give him a simple declarative idea and he will repeat it to you in a dozen new guises, tricked out in quotations, skipping in humor, prone in absurdity or radiant with glamour. It takes erudition, it takes nimbleness; but of both Mr. Schauffler has sufficient to jump over the conversational candlestick with our spryest informal essayists. Among the ideas herein prestidigitated are "Ignorance Is Bliss," "Cupid in Knickerbockers" (on calf love), "Timesquarese" (on alphabetical survival of the fittest) and "Unborn...