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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Lisbeth's other three men include an impeccable fiancé, an amiable American whom she met on a merry-go-round, a middle-aged Londoner with 152 pairs of red socks, who is mesmerized so completely that even Lisbeth cannot break the spell she casts over him. Mostly pleasant nonsense, Harlequin House is sometimes so addled that a reader is diverted by wondering how Author Sharp can unscramble her puzzle. He finds that she fits it together so neatly that nothing is lacking but a point...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Post-Wodehouse | 4/24/1939 | See Source »

Miss Skinner is not only beautiful and a superb artisan. Her production is as polished, professional, and thoroughly competent as any that has come to Boston this year. Shaw is never dull even when played badly; when played as beautifully as it was last night before a spell-bound audience at the Colonial it is superb...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Playgoer | 4/11/1939 | See Source »

...almost entirely to my lack of education. You see, some people have called me a literary stylist, but that's not al all true. My education was so meagre that when I started to write my column, I didn't have the faintest idea of how to spell the words I ran up against. Consequently, I just spell them the way they sound--herz d'ecuvres are just plain "aw-devres...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Walter Winchell Claims Deficiency In Education Explains Ability as Stylist | 4/11/1939 | See Source »

...been quiet on the intramural sports front for more than a week, and all will continue to be quiet for several more weeks, giving Generalissimo Adolph Samborski a breathing spell after a furious fall and winter season and a chance to figure out how the eight entries in the Grand Harvard Handicap stand...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Deacons Retain Lead for Straus Cup As Inter - House Sports Season Lulls | 3/23/1939 | See Source »

...Italian, the first four letters of the name Pacelli spell peace. The world hoped last week, after that name was converted to Pius XII, that the first acts of its owner might help bring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Name | 3/13/1939 | See Source »

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