Word: strewn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...novel which France's Goncourt Academy immortalizes. This, Author Constantin-Weyer's novel, is the 25th to win the prize. A Man Scans His Past tells a story as much of prairies and snows as of death and love in Canada. Poetic descriptions of nature are lavishly strewn over a French horse-trader's trek from the U. S. to Canada where he sells his herd; then his mush onward by sled and dog, to the frozen Northwest for furs. On the way back death comes to his companion ; and, though freighted by the corpse...
Died. Margaret Lawrence, 39, famed comédienne, Tea for Three, Secrets, Lawful Larceny; by shooting; in her Manhattan penthouse apartment. In a bottle-strewn bedroom, a bullet in her breast, she was found by the side of her lover, Actor Louis Bennison, also shot. Police thought Bennison killed both. Miss Lawrence, who had been suspended by Actors' Equity Association for "walking out" of Edgar Selwyn's Possession, and recently reinstated, was twice married (Publisher Orson Munn, divorced; Actor Wallace Eddinger, deceased). She had two daughters, Elizabeth Munn, 14, Louisine Munn...
Secretary of State Stimson last week found his desk strewn with vexatious matters appertaining to that troublesome, vermiform little neighbor, Cuba. As President Hoover's foreign minister, Statesman Stimson had to keep abreast of Cuba's internal disorders, of which several were stirring last week. Complaints centred chiefly about President Gerardo Machado...
...play is thoroughly preposterous, strewn with woe and valor and long-winded speeches about each. It reaches its one dramatic, now highly amusing, climax when a near-hero is tied to the railroad tracks, to be rescued when the heroine smashes her way out of her freight-house prison with an axe and reaches him just before a cardboard locomotive trundles by. It is acted with true old-fashioned fervor by a cast which enters into the spirit of the occasion with a rush. Earl Mitchell is particularly convincing as the deep-dyed villain and whole-souled performances are contributed...
Stretched eastward from Manhattan in the shape of a candle-flame, lies Long Island. Here, in a country made for pleasure, live socially-minded persons who dart to their diversions along concealed and crooked trails, inserted through the woods or strewn upon the shore. Their houses, lying between hills or built above bright beaches, are walled with forests and reticent behind curling drives. Who builds them and makes them beautiful...