Word: things
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...high society girl is the lowest thing on earth." Dr. John Roach Straton, thunderer of 57th Street, Manhattan, has returned from Europe. Said...
...Significance. The Puppet Master is that rare thing, a fantasy without a trace of professional whimsicality or sentimentalism-it has all the charm of Barrie at his best without one drop of glycerine in its composition. Humorous, beautiful, poignant with airy melancholy, this minute and perfect comedy of puppets and their masters is a complete and singular achievement in its mode. Our time has produced little fantasy, but this is of the best of it-and it will last. Gay and incredible as a dream in a fairytale, it has that reality about it which no laborious exactitude of realism...
BLUE WATER - Arthur Sturges Hildebrand-Harcourt ($3.00). The record of a 5,000-mile cruise from Gourock on the Clyde to the isles of Greece in a 19-ton yacht, the Caltha, under sail. The record of the sort of thing that all suppressed adventurers dream about whenever they pass the window of Thomas Cook & Son, and only the lucky and courageous few dare translate into reality. Blue water, grey water, storms and calms, the Balearic Isles, Lisbon, Gibraltar, Cartagena, Alicante, Civita Vecchia, Athens, Constantinople and its bubble-domed mosques, the men that go down to the sea in sailing...
...characters of Liza, of Liza's mother, of Jim and Tom. The first book contained only a shadow of the future bitterness of Maugham's work. In Mrs. Craddock his sense of the mixture of tragedy and comedy is almost at its best-the same sort of thing which in its more precise form is seen in plays such as Our Betters and The Circle and short stories such as Rain...
...there such a thing as ether, as the old-school physicists assert and Einstein denies? If so, does the ether fill the universe, absolutely at rest and permeating freely through all material bodies, or does the earth, as it revolves upon its axis, drag the ether with...