Word: sheila
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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SUSAN SPRAY-Sheila Kaye-Smith- Harper ($2.50).- Sheila Kaye-Smith likes Sussex, continues to write about its broad, quiet fields, its broad, quiet people. If by some unlikely chance you have never read one of her books, Susan Spray is a good one to begin on. If you fear being bored to extinction by heavy dialect and heavy characters clodhopping to a country tragedy, take heart: there is enough irony, humanity, sly humor to leaven a much heavier lump...
...Other Book-of-the-Month: SUSAN SPRAY-Sheila Kaye-Smith-Harper ($2.50). It is the story of a woman evangelist, born of poor farmer tenants in rural England. At the age of four she sees God in a fiery bush, runs home screaming to her mother; for the rest of her life she continues to embroider on the tale, sincerely coming to believe it herself. Through the course of her life she marries three times, manages to combine the flesh & the spirit so charmingly, so successfully that she becomes famed...
...Great Powers but also Governor Montagu Norman of the Bank of England and the personal representative of George V at the Chequers Conference, His Majesty's private secretary Sir Clive Wigram. Hostess No. 1 was famed Miss Ishbel MacDonald, charity worker. Hostess No. 2 was obscure Miss Sheila MacDonald, bicycle rider, basketballer. Lunch was the merriest Dr. Bruning has eaten in a long time. As a friend of his once said: "Heinrich is more than Spartan, he is monastic...
...Sheila Klavan was a porter in Chicago. Lately he lost his job. All he owned was 2,000 shares of oil stock which had cost him $200. He wrote to Charles A. Dean, assistant trust officer of Empire Trust Co., Manhattan, transfer agent for the oil company, to find out what the stock was worth. Trust Officer Dean replied it was worth nothing, the company had blown...
Last week Sheila Klavan arrived in Manhattan, weary and shabby after walking and hitchhiking from Chicago. He went to call on Banker Dean, who repeated what he had written. He started to show Klavan out, walking ahead of him. He felt a light blow on his back, then a piercing pain. Desperate, depressed Sheila Klavan had stabbed Banker Dean with an icepick...