Word: ruth
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...very much interested in the book which was written by Mrs. Ruth A. Jeremiah Gottfried who compiled the recipes for dishes of all nations which were published in book form as the "Questing Cook" and I would like very much to know where I can buy copies of that book. A book of that type would be very valuable to me in all my hotels and if you would only inform me as to where I can purchase same I will appreciate...
...York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania is a tall gaunt man named Robert G. Elliott, official executioner for those four States. After society had finally decided it must take the lives of Communists Sacco & Vanzetti last summer, it was Executioner Elliott who threw the electric switch. He also killed Ruth Snyder, Judd Gray, and over 100 less famed criminals. When he took up his profession in 1926 he tried to keep it secret. But his name leaked out after a year. He has been uneasy ever since...
...following program will be given at the Pops concert this evening at 8.15 o'clock in Symphony Hall: Ballet Suite Gluck-Gevaert Air for G String Bach Overture to "Leonore" No. 3 Beethoven Overture to "A Midsummer Night's Dream" Mendelssohn "Scarlattiana," Suite (Piano Solo: Ruth Webb) Casella Ballet from "Othello" Verdi Prelude to Act III, "Traviata" Verdi Overture to "Sicillan Vespers" Verdi
...LIFE-Francis Brett Young-Knopf ($2.50). Versatile author of psychic Cold Harbour, Conradian Sea Horses, two volume saga Love Is Enough, Dr. (medical) Young now combines a poetic setting in Shropshire with the vivid glitter of Egypt. Ruth Morgan leaves her English countryside to marry an Egyptologist, whose heart, but for an April with her in Shropshire, is buried with tattooed mummies in the tombs of Thebes. Bezuidenhout's work is also in Thebes, but his anthropological research is for the sake of his profession as doctor to the living, and not in adoration of dead antiquity...
...Ruth recognizes this conflict of interests, instinctively takes sides with Bezuidenhout against antiquity, though she struggles against such disloyalty to her betrothed. Surrounded by easy-going excavators who muse upon the past, Ruth makes her choice between loyalty to her desiccated ascetic Egyptologist, and love for virile Bezuidenhout-so very much alive in the omnipresence of death. The act that her choice is disappointing to the reader speaks well for Author Young's sympathetic portrayal...