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...Married Adventure. Osa Leighty was a small-town Kansas girl, the spunky, snub-nosed daughter of a brakeman on the Santa Fe. At 16 she met a lanky young candid-camera bug named Martin Johnson, from the neighboring town of Independence. Lately famed as crew member on Jack London's cruise of the Snark, he was part owner of two nickelodeons-Snark No. 1 and No. 2. In darkened Snark No. 1 he abruptly proposed marriage. A few months later Mr. & Mrs. Martin Johnson started a vaudeville lecture tour, saved enough to head for the South Sea cannibal islands...
Wild plum was in spectral blossom, dogwood lurked in the woods, the purple-flowered Judas trees ranged the red-clay roads, already deep with dust. But for two days snub-faced Dr. Ross Mclntire, White House physician, kept the boss indoors, made him rest in the lounge chair by the fireplace in the pine-paneled living room. Midweek came before Dr. Mclntire permitted the President to disport his 6 ft. 2 in. in the buoyant, tepid waters of the glass-roofed pool. Canada's plumpish Prime Minister W. L. Mackenzie King lay in swimming trunks on a cot while...
...named Parris Mitchell, brought up by his well-to-do French grandmother, senses the snobbery of Kings Row when he sees his schoolmates snub the birthday party of Cassandra Tower, whose strange, brilliant father remains aloof from the town. Later Parris goes to study medicine with Dr. Tower, carries on an affair with neurotic, beautiful Cassandra. The evil of the world smites Parris suddenly in one week when his beloved grandmother dies of cancer, his revered teacher Dr. Tower poisons Cassandra and kills himself. A notebook of Dr. Tower's intimates that he had been more than a father...
...years the U. S. has made much of its diplomatic inexperience. If the classic picture of a British diplomat is a well-read University man, trained to translate Rimbaud or snub the Estonian minister with equal aplomb, the classic figure of the U. S. diplomatist is a man who knows no foreign language, mixes up seating arrangements, and is just learning as he goes along. U. S. foreign service bags at the knees, pretends that its hearing is not very good, cannot dance, has only a vague idea of what is going on, is cheerfully disparaged by the populace...
...speak of the unusual lady who had the honor to play the French horn with the Budapest string ensemble, as "snub-nosed." (I like her picture, myself.) And you deal with the instrument. The "horn" (the forest horn as the Germans call it), famed for the nobility of its tone, used chiefly to give an inner core of golden harmony to the music of the great orchestra, an instrument sonorous and yet almost incomparably romantic; for you it "beeps and purls." But that is not all. You go on to the "saliva" with which it becomes filled. Permit me, mister...