Word: sophisticatee
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Ten Nights in a Barroom. Temperance tracts, wild wives tossing their heads, Andrew J. Volstead-none of these have withered U. S. alcoholism so effectively as this old-time melodrama. In this revival it is played with complete and proper gravity. The effect of this is often as funny as...
True enough, most of this has been noted before. But Author Merz's book is the final all-inclusive footnote on Babbittry, written with a reporter's peculiar genius for marshalling an army of items into significant categories. It must be remembered, however, that a newer school of...
Fertilizer was added to the root so to speak, when he read Prescott's account of the conquest of the country. And after all, he must be a hardened sophisticate who would not thrill over the expedition of Pizarro with his mere handful of men, an expedition of mingled courage...
EAST INDIA AND COMPANY?Paul Morand?A. & C.Boni ($2.50). Perhaps when a Parisian sophisticate visits the Orient he is able to discover there an array of feminine beauty equal to that discovered in Paris, and an aroma of sophistication as pungently delicate as that with which he perfumes his handkerchiefs...
*The black, the brown, the yellow man learns of the white race from its cinemas nightly in every quarter of the globe. "And what does he learn ?" asks able sophisticate Aldous Huxley in his new round-the-world travel book (see p. 19). "Standing in the midst of ... [a] crowd...