Word: soaks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Jessie Conrad (With a preface by Joseph Conrad)-Doubleday ($1.75). Joseph Conrad offers himself "modestly and gratefully as a Living Example" of his wife's art. Her style, lacking the richer beauties of his, has a toothsome directness. The following excerpt is characteristic: "The best plan is to soak the head in a bowl of cold water and a little salt all night, previously removing the brains." The quotation is from a fanciful essay entitled "Calf's Head...