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...MASTER MURDERER - Carolyn Wells-Lippincott ($2). Fleming Stone pins the simultaneous slaughter of the four rich Everetts on the lad whose soup spoon wavered...
Those who judge professors by their eloquence or skill in "spoon-feeding" ought seduously to avoid Professor Abbott's lectures. I hope there are some others who believe that the true office of a teacher is to suggest and guide rather than to stuff or entertain. (Name Withheld by Request...
...Florida land boom of 1926 he organized the "American-British improvement Corp.," planned to build a city called "Floranada" on 3,600 Florida acres. Collapse of the boom wiped out his own fortune and millions loaned by his family. "I discovered that a diamond-encrusted golden spoon can become an instrument of torture-when it stirs the bitter tea of failure...
...torches and the Revolution" and was supposed to be the Dauphin. Weiler's grandson, in the days when Johnny was growing up, kept a commercial hotel in the town, where drummers sat and exchanged dirty stories. There are enough minor characters in The Farm to fill a dozen Spoon Rivers-people like Dr. Trefusis, whose grandiose Gothic house was one of the town's sights; Big Mary, an amiable, immensely efficient Negro cook, who refused to exchange her status of "accommodator" for steady employment; Johnny's Uncle Robert, a champion bicycle racer who was killed...
Julia Newberry was born with a good-sized silver spoon in her good-sized mouth. When her father died he left his wife and two daughters so well off that they could easily afford $60,000 to make over their town house into what everyone said was "the handsomest house in Chicago." The hall was 70 ft. long, and Julia had her own "studio." with a private staircase. They could also afford to leave it for summers in Richfield Springs, N. Y., visits to Utica, Manhattan, St. Augustine, Fla., extended grand tours abroad. Their U. S. travels were of course...