Word: tome
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...SOFT SPOT-A. S. M. Hutchinson -Little, Brown ($2.50). Twelve years ago the huge success of the novel If Winter Comes caused its shy author, Arthur Stuart Menteth Hutchinson, to flee precipitately from England to the Balearic Islands. The success of Author Hutchinson's latest tome, The Soft-Spot, a painfully mannered and prolix dissection of an Englishman with a talent for sponging, should cause him no such embarrassment whatever. Stephen Wain developed the habit of living off his half-brother Maxwell, a wealthy explorer, when they shared diggings in Bayswater, where Stephen studied architecture. Later, as a practicing...
From England, where antiquarians ponder over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore, Heart Burial* a new tome, reached the U. S. last week. The author, Charles Angell Bradford, concerns himself primarily with hearts given special burial in the London district. Besides that, he tries anthropologically to link the faded fad with the canopic burials of viscera in ancient Egypt...
...faculty, Raphael Johnson Shortlidge. Son Paul also went to Mr. Shortlidge's summer camp in New Hampshire. In 1927, having served Choate for 17 years. Teacher Shortlidge was made headmaster of Storm King School (Cornwall-on Hudson, N. Y.). Last September he moved again, this time to Tome at Port Deposit, Md., few miles' up the Susquehanna River from Chesapeake Bay. Some 30 Storm King boys followed him to the new school. Headmaster Shortlidge, now 49, found Tome's celebrated neo-Colonial plant wisely financed, well-staffed but half-empty. Built to accommodate 200 students. Tome...
...ADVANCES OF HARRIET-Phyllis Bottome-Houghton, Mifflin ($2). An average Bottome (pr. "Bot-tome") novel for those that like them...
...gave the night of the Trafalgar trouble to such once popular Laborites as John Joseph ("Jumping Jack") Jones, Will Thorne and the Labor Party's present leader Old George Lansbury. At different meetings they were all booed and shouted down with such sarcastic cries as "We want bread not tome!" and "Tell us the old, old story...