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This isn't a bad skeleton, but it is so over-simplified in its development that you feel it never achieves full body. If Miss Treadwell had devoted more of her imagination to a revelation of the inner conflict between hope and defeat, and less to a chronicling of life in the San Joaquin (which can be pretty dull at times), she would have had a more successful time of it. There is a long list of excellent characterizations headed by that of the Italian truck-grower, Alan Reed. Despite its deficiencies in depth--by no means an uncommon failing...
...German advance would go was anybody's guess. The complete lack of resistance suggested that General Sir Archibald Wavell had stripped the area of all but a skeleton force, and sent most of the others to Greece where he expected more decisive action. He had taken a gamble of the kind good generals have to take...
...wall behind white-bearded Leader Pechanatz hung a picture of Gavrilo Princip, the assassin who shot and killed the Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand at Sarajevo in 1914, thus started World War I. In a corner, on the floor, lay the bleached skeleton of a Chetnik hero. Said Leader Pechanatz, with a casual wave of his arm: "His mother comes to see me every few weeks. She often asks whose skeleton that is. I have never told her. I am hard, but not that hard...
...expensive divorce suit. Abbott put his favorite nephew in charge of the paper. The Defender went from bad to worse. Publisher Abbott died. Mrs. Abbott No. 2 stepped in. The nephew was fired. Thereupon he and his aunt started digging in the closet for a skeleton...
...CARELESS HANGMAN-Nigel Borland-Farrar & Rinehart ($2). Mrs. Battleaxe Pym of the Yard roars her giant red Sforza all over Thameshire in the matter of the tailor's dummy made of a human skeleton...