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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although one must look about him in St. Paul's for the memorial to Sir Christopher Wren, the Search is greatly expedited by a guide book which will point out to the eager novitiate the subtleties of construction--if one can speak with impunity of the subtleties of St. Paul's. Thus Mr. Adams could have presented his public with a competent Baedeker which is greatly needed by the novitiate. There is much in this sensitive, keen, and penetrating intellect that requires enlightenment. Burdened from youth with the consciousness of generations and of the necessities of success, Henry Adams drifted...
...three weeks Chango has been demanding white blood lest a curse be cast upon us. . . . While we had the girls we fed them raw potatoes, sugar and water for that is what a sacrifice for Chango must have. . . . It was decided to hold the sacrifice today because of the search being made for the girls...
...others-nothing, except two dead bodies, as yet unidentified. Search was continued for hours, but without hope of finding another man alive. (In course of the search the Navy blimp J-3 crashed into the ocean off the New Jersey coast. Of her crew of seven, Lieut.-Commander David E. Cummins and two others were killed.) Down with the Akron evidently, had gone the 71; among them Lieut. Robert W. Larson, the airplane pilot who only last month flew from the Akron to shore in the Canal Zone to visit his wife; among them Lieut. Wilfred Bushnell, co-winner...
...Cabinet Minister; at night he reverted to the wailing Jew. Aude was horrified and left him. Then Solal abandoned everything for her-faith, riches, power-and became a renegade, but her love for him was dead. He went downhill fast. With the last of his strength he went in search of her, found her happy in forgetfulness of him. Solal meant to kill her but instead he did something better...
...Germany's University of Bonn, and went back to Rome to teach Italian literature to women. After he had published 20 books of short stories and three novels, a playwright friend persuaded him to dramatize one of his stories into a one-act play. With Six Characters in Search of an Author (produced in Rome in 1921) Pirandello leaped into the limelight. He gave up teaching; from a hermit-like professor he soon became a fashionable and active author-manager, rushing to openings by airplane...