Word: skies
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...right wing of the accompanying photograph, will be built as a separate unit before the remainder of the structure. In this ell the swimming pool, the demensions of which will probably be 75 by 60 feet, will be on the second floor, with direct sunlight through the sky light...
CUPS, WANDS AND SWORDS?Helen Simpson?Knopf ($2.50). The plot of this novel bears so exact a resemblance to the plot of Red Sky at Morning, most recent work of Author Margaret Kennedy, that, had the two books not been published almost simultaneously, there would have been an enormous hoot about plagiarism. These are the likenesses: both books are about mixed twins of dangerous heredity, who keep company with fashionable, questionable artists, who feel for each other a more than normally intense devotion; in both books the girl twin's marriage threatens this devotion, produces, in the Kennedy case...
Italian villages on the Mediterranean. Sunlight, blue sky and water on the Riviera. Stimulating talks with fellow-scholars in quiet Oxford closes, in dingy European university towns. The calm, still air of delightful studies in the great libraries and museums where Europe protects rare volumes and manuscripts from the ravaging American millionaire. These things beckoned to many a great Johns Hopkins scholar last week...
...Heart And My Flesh," will therefore only enhance an already established reputation. It is an extremely creditable enhancement, however, and will suffer, and then slightly, only when compared with its predecessor. It fulfils the promise of "The Time Of Man" much more successfully than Miss Kennedy's "Red Sky At Morning" fulfils the splendor of "The Constant Nymph...
...next episode is something very different. In Raona, "that ancient Mediterranean town on a cliff ledge half way to the sky," Claire Ambler met an invalid whose gallantries on a battlefield more severe than that of love permitted him to anticipate only one bravery more. Charles Orbison, waiting, in the warm sun, for death to reward him for the wounds he had suffered in the War, saw Claire Ambler and heard her sing once, beautifully and out of a rare simplicity. Claire, not very inexplicably, fell in love with this quiet sardonic man who gently criticized the coquetries...