Word: scabbards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Prestone) instead of water, has been made more compact, as light as the radial, much more adaptable to streamlining, since its cylinders extend back on a long crankshaft instead of spreading out like a fan. It can be tucked as neatly into airplane design as a sword into a scabbard...
When Ray Coryton Hutchinson's fourth novel, Shining Scabbard, was published last year, one excited English reviewer called him "one of the very few living English novelists who will be read fifty- perhaps a hundred-years hence." Other reviewers did not hurl their hats quite so high, but they agreed on Hutchinson's amazing virtuosity...
...Answering Glory, an intense story of a woman missionary in Africa, from the snug purview of his London suburb. Although he was only eleven when the Armistice was signed, The Unforgotten Prisoner was an apparently first-hand account of English and German War victims. And he wrote Shining Scabbard, a grim novel of French family life, with no closer acquaintance with France than French literature...
...been living a moderately civilized life in his wire enclosure for several years, still spending very little of his oil money. He dislikes white men, he still wears the long knife in a scabbard at his belt and he is reticent in conversation with most of his Osage brothers. Franklin Revard, a member of the tribal council and a prominent Osage, is one of the few to whom John will speak in Osage grunts...
...fulfilled. In the dark abode of the Séverins, where no sunlight ever penetrates, the exiles are tormented by a hideous assortment of demons. The worst of their enemies is old Colonel Séverin, whose history is so involved that most of the 483 pages of Shining Scabbard are required to get it elucidated. During the Franco-Prussian War, it appears, the gallant officer was cashiered for contemptible cowardice. Now, in 1914, he is still trying to get the judgment reversed, meanwhile spending most of his time in bed, appearing mysteriously in good health after being reported dying...