Word: rosing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Many elaborate and costly costumes have been selected, Miss Rose Briggs being in charge of arranging and preparing the costumes...
...Imperial Conference of Empire Premiers rose last week after accomplishing little more than to define (TIME, Nov. 15) the well- understood but heretofore tacit interrelation between the Dominions and the Mother Country...
...Samuel Meeks-a man of 45, looking much older, with vague eyes half-closed in a sunburned, drooping face- rose from his chair and walked uncertainly out of a courthouse in Indiana. He did not know quite where to go, but anyway he could not go back now-not to Logansport. Alice Meeks, his wedded wife, had just divorced him. She complained that she found him a burden to her; she had kept him for a long time. Now he could go. She needed a man to work her farm. . . . The judge agreed with...
Roman Catholics devoted no time to answering a question which rose to the lips of many a Protestant: "Why does the Roman Catholic Church refuse to grant a divorce to a man and woman who have lived in civil wedlock; but instead grants an annulment, of which one effect is to inform the unhappy pair that they have been living together in an unmarried state...
CREWE TRAIN-Rose Macaulay -Boni & Liveright ($2). The title simply means, from a British catchphrase, "wrong train." Denham Dobie, daughter of a peace-loving British cleric, grows up barefoot in a remote Spanish hamlet with a native stepmother and half-breed half-sisters. Her father dies. Her aunt, the Elinor Glynnish wife of a smart London publisher, "rescues" the reluctant orphan, who makes no head nor tail of her relatives' civilized occupations: incessantly scribbling books or about books, doing things they dislike because others do them, concerning themselves with every one's private affairs, eternally gibbling, gabbling. Give...