Word: tales
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With an excellent literary style, concise and readable, Sir James explains not only the constitution of our universe, but the history of astronomical though from the earliest times. The reader with but a mild interest in the subject matter will find in it a fascinating tale, easy to pick up, next to impossible to lay down. It is another proof of the ancient dictum that the truly great man is he who can express the most complicated of thoughts without resorting to involved phraseology as a sort of camouflage...
...student, about to marry an heiress, were to give up his prospective marriage at graduation in favour of post-graduate work in Bio-Chem, he would be eligible for a nurses training school and presumably for the job of nurse. That is precisely what Loretta Young does in this tale of youth, hospitals, twelve o'clock scandals, overdoses and frequent shots of an oily Florence Nightingale. Boston blue-bloods should take note of John Boles as John Hall, 3rd, and follow his lead with regard to the perfect social marriage by taking a train to Union City, which combines...
...yourself were left in the world. And then suppose that one day you discovered that you were not quite alone after all, that somebody else was in the store too. These are the presumptions Author Cozzens makes the reader swallow. Once they are accepted, the rest of the circumstantial tale follows as nightmare the daydream. Able Author Cozzens always takes a leaf out of some good notebook. This time it is from Edgar Allan Poe's, Ambrose Bierce's, Daniel Defoe...
...certain point, Author Cozzens unfalteringly directs a tale that might turn comic if he did not keep it rigid with suspense. What that point is the heavily-breathing reader will find out for himself...
...HEIFER-F.D. Davison-Coward-McCann ($2). Tale of wild cattle in the Australian bush, its heroine a red heifer. Originally published at the author's expense, it was awarded a gold medal by the Australian Literature Society for the best novel...