Word: sons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Plays: Wurzel-Flammery; Belinda; Mr. Pim Passes By; The Truth about Blayds. Books, principally for children: When We Were Very Young; Winnie-the-Pooh ; Now We Are Six (dedicated to Christopher Robin, son of Author Milne, with whom he is very affectionate...
...worthy of all the good things that have been said about me, and I am not worthy of this gift-this timely gift, I might say, It is timely because my old Ingersoll gave out last summer and I had to borrow a watch from my son. I'll never forget this night...
Count de Lesseps, noted in aviation news for many years as expert flyer, is son of Ferdinand de Lesseps,* canal builder...
KITTY-Warwick Deeping- Knopf ($2). Sex, sentimentality, simplicity-the formula upon which Author Deeping constructed his first best seller Sorrel and Son, his second best seller Doomsday, is, in this opus, not so much complicated by the more difficult factors of good storytelling and sound characterization. In the story of Kitty, a shopgirl, Alex St. George, who marries her, and Clara St. George, his tigerish mother, there is a return to the maudlinity that kept Author Deeping so long upon the lists of the unheralded. Probably even the fact that Alex St. George is a British soldier will not serve...
...Story.* Easy-going Pa Bowers, a Minnesota farmer, was always having to sell more land to his wealthy neighbors, the Carews, in order to meet last month's bills. Once, the Carews forgot a payment, and the Bowers could not afford a new windmill, so Reef Bowers, pluperfect son, climbed up to fix the old one in the dark- that is where the story opens, with Reef lying in the farmhouse, "dreaming of pain." Downstairs, little Elsa Bowers decides to hate the Carews forever, especially Bayliss Carew, whose "cheeks and lips were like a raspberry. The Carew...