Word: reed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Francisco strumpet who knifes her Chinese paramour, slips on board an Alaska-bound freighter, enraptures its captain (Victor McLaglen), befriends a churchworker bound for Nome, usurps her identity when she dies, lands in Nome as Sister Annie Alden, enslaves a young territorial police officer (Philip Reed), renounces him rather than ruin his career, returns to San Francisco to face the music. As usual, the comedy depends mainly upon the incongruity between Mae West's up-to-date wisecracks and their fin de siècle background...
Prayers, wailing chants and the mournful notes of reed pipes sounded last week in many a dusty, sparsely settled district of New Mexico and southern Colorado. On Ash Wednesday swart, hot-eyed Mexicans and half-breeds ceased their labors, stole into the moradas which are the secret churches of Los Hermanos Penitentes-the Penitent Brothers. In each morada the Elder Brother of the community presided over ceremonies which were a prelude to the 40 days of Lent, spent by all Penitentes in bloody emulation of the sufferings of Christ. One by one the brothers bowed before a Sangrador who with...
...THINKING REED-Rebecca West -Viking...
...written criticism and comment that was some-times brilliant, always flashy; often sensible but always dogmatic. Her third novel, Harriet Hume, was a clever tour de force whose artificiality distracted attention from its able workmanship. Last week she published a book that swept all critical hats off. The Thinking Reed, in spite of its tasteless title, immediately took its deserved place among the best novels in the short memory of modern man. Rebecca West had lost none of her brilliance. Yet the serious channel of her thought was plain to see. Her theme, Woman v. Man, was well-worn...
Farson's patience and energetic bonhomie were rewarded; he did well enough to set up his own selling company. Then came the Russian Revolution, in which, in spite of his good friend John Reed's hot tips, he had taken no stock. When his business and night life both ended, he went to England, got a commission in the Royal Flying Corps, and was sent to Egypt. A bad crash left him with a troublesome leg, which has cost him a total of three years in hospital. With no job, money or prospects he married an English girl...