Word: stevenson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Dyed-in-the-wool Conservatives who approve wholeheartedly of Britain's gigantic rearmament scheme accepted the new tax as a necessary evil, other Conservatives feared it would cause dangerous discontent, would sap industrial vitality. Declared Sir Robert Stevenson Home. Conservative Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1921 to 1922: "I have talked with many people and there are great perturbations. Unless these are abated in some way I fear some check upon the enterprise of the country." British Radicals, though strongly opposed to rearmament, were delighted that the 1937 Budget hits those with most money, tagged it the "Soak...
RODIN : IMMORTAL PEASANT-Anne Leslie-Prentice-Hall ($3). Lively biography of a lively subject, the lusty, redheaded, great French sculptor, whose eventual fame at 60 left undimmed the traits which prompted Robert Louis Stevenson's wife to call him "a horrid...
...William Makepeace Thackeray. Half the most scholarly families in Eng-land-the Darwins, Maitlands, Symondses, Stracheys-are related to her. Her father, Sir Leslie Stephen, editor of the Cornhill Magazine and the Dictionary of National Biography, kept open house for the great literary men of his day (Meredith, Stevenson, Ruskin, Hardy, John Morley, Oliver Wendell Holmes). The classic dead crowded the shelves of his library. Though Virginia Woolf's experience was as restricted as Jane Austen's, her reading knew no bounds. She began early to write reviews for the august London Times Literary Supplement, and still does...
THIS LIFE I'VE LOVED-Isobel Field- Longmans, Green ($3). The step-daughter of Robert Louis Stevenson recalls with a benevolent serenity unusual in artists' memoirs, her varied life in Nevada mining camps, San Francisco's art colony, Hawaiian King Kalakaua's court, in Samoa as amanuensis to Stevenson during his last days...
...comes around one day. She also devotes much of her time to the commercial manufacture of "Love Dreams," a candy, and the study of toe dancing. She and the rest of the irresponsible, carefree household are happy as a jaybird with a worm until suddenly Granddaughter Alice Sycamore (Margot Stevenson) becomes painfully aware of the family's prodigious eccentricity because she and her highly conventional employer's son, Tony Kirby, fall in love...