Word: smoothly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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MURDER AMONG THE ANGELLS?Roger Scarlett?Crime Club ($2). Aging twin brothers die in a high-walled old Boston house. The will, the triangle, the marked money?these are well stirred into smooth murder...
Perhaps it is only that Radcliffe has changed, though there are doubts on that score. Of course, the Vagabond wandered a bit confusedly through Gothic Yale Saturday, of course he drank cocktails with very smooth Elis, but, unexpectedly, he met Radcliffe after the game in a Harkness study. She was drying her shoes before the fire, and as she wriggled silken toes all was confessed. Not ships and sealing-wax were the topics of conversation, not the game, for Radcliffe felt very bad on that point (she had been there with a Yale man) but Harvard men themselves were dissected...
...worst detective "thrillers" that the cinema has produced. Professor Moriarty is there, but dull, asthmatic, licking his stupid Bapsburg chops Swearing revenge, the renovated Professor escapes from prison. One is not sure of the method, but there is a tumult of sirens, of whistles, of confused turnkeys slithering over smooth cement floors, of dead ones breathing heartily, hanging stiffly on steel staircases, & splendid tumult to make audiences forgive and forget. The rest is too much. There is a conglomeration of leers pineapples, cockney, forgeries, subway tunnels into bank vaults, of everything in fact as far from characteristically London as Hollywood...
...home. Egypt has no mountain peaks, but there remain the pyramids. Herron motored out to Gizeh and scrambled up the huge blocks of the Great Pyramid with no trouble at all. Then he tried the smaller (477½ ft.) Second Pyramid whose apex still retains much of its original smooth alabaster sheathing. Hoisting himself confidently from one 4-ft. block to the next Alpinist Herron reached the top, stood up and waved to his friends. Then, somehow, he slipped. A sprawling black spider to the horrified eyes below, his body slithered off the alabaster cap, bounced down the huge jagged...
...woolens, Aristide Maillol has been very particular about his materials. He used to complain violently about every type of drawing paper on the market. Several years ago he chewed a big gob of drawing paper while working on a clay model and finally spat it out on the smooth tile floor. Some hours later he picked it up, discovered that the underside of his paper quid had acquired a beautiful fine grain. Faithful Nephew Caspar Maillol undertook to manufacture drawing paper for his uncle and friends by a like process. It is expensive, not on the public market. The only...