Word: sentimentale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Unfortunately Miss Sears has been completely carried away by the romantic but overworked idea of King Philip leading the "noble red man" against the cruel and heartless force of oncoming civilization. Certainly there was something that was noble in the Indians' struggle, and Miss Sears has an inkling of it...
MEMORIES OF MY CHILDHOOD-Selma Lagerlöf-Doubleday, Doran ($2.50). For human character, as for meat, salt preservative. Selma Lagerlöf is an old lady but she is salty. Best-loved Swedish writer, she is no Pollyanna but a wideawake female citizen whose rose-colored spectacles sometimes conceal...
Others pick small places sometimes out of sentimental attachment, sometimes to avoid high taxes, as does the Southern Pacific. Sometimes, too, they pick them to avoid being annoyed by stockholders. It would seem logical that Delaware, home of corporations, would have the most meetings. But Delaware's liberal incorporation...
Latest member of the artistic La Farge family to make his literary bow is Christopher, in a 224-page poem which he modestly calls "an American novel in verse." A patriotic poem, Hoxsie Sells His Acres sings not of arms and men but of Rhode Island land-lovers. A nostalgic...
When, three weeks ago, a British court awarded Russian Princess Youssoupov $126,800 on the ground that the cinema Rasputin libeled her, it opened Hollywood's eyes to a vista of disastrous possibilities. If superior courts uphold her claim, all the connections or descendants of famed characters in all...