Word: sellers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...lasciviousness so intense as to be quite "pure." A Catholic, she could not divorce him. An old school Tory, he would not divorce her. He set his jaw, closed his mansion, saw his father commit suicide, his mother die of grief, when he was bruited a maquereau, (wife-seller). His code, so ancient that society could not recognize it, commanded silence. He took the blame, pretending to have liaisons of his own. When, furious at her failure to make him wince, she asked to return to his house, he admitted her without altering his expression. Thus her malice...
...must remember that, after all, there is very little thought in the average "big seller" and that such a book could, indeed, be reduced to pamphlet, size and still show padding. Mr. Hamilton in developing are theory has merely proved another that most modern novels are expansions of nothing...
...bedside of one Mae Wahl, an anemic patient at the Greenpoint Hospital, L. I., a husky blood-seller was conducted, introduced, and told to roll up his sleeve. Through a hollow needle, a doctor then connected a tube with a vein in his arm. The tube led up to a barrel-shaped cylinder about an inch high from which on the other side a similar tube stretched to prick the chilly flesh of poor Mae Wahl. The doctor turned a switch and a plunger began to work in the cylinder. On the down stroke it sucked blood...
...pump, the tubes, the indicator -all part of his new electric device for blood transfusion-were getting their first demonstration. The ordinary transfusion is complicated and requires the concentrated attention of several people. The new method is quicker, simpler, easier. In five minutes the seller, minus several gills of blood, was speeding away with his money in his pocket, and poor Mae Wahl was sitting up in bed. Soon she would have a patch of red in each meagre cheek...
MacDonald Smith is one of the Smith Brothers. No bearded rapscallion he, seller of sugar-coated cough drops, but the most brilliant member of a famed golfing family, the Smiths: Alec, George, Jim, Willie,* MacDonald. Thirty, years ago, Alec, the eldest Smith, came to the U.S., was three times open runner-up, once champion, won 19 important championships between 1898 and 1914, had among his pupils Jerry Travers, Marion Hollins, Glenna Collett, Reggie Lewis. MacDonald, the youngest, was famed at 15, played extraordinary golf until, in 1914, he went to California, disappeared from competition. Recently, he returned. When playing...