Word: trailing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Alfred Emanuel Smith, most famed Democratic liberal until the New Deal shoved back the liberal frontier and moved out on the Santa Fe trail of experiment...
...Biography." His scheme has been to take readers along with him in his "quest" for the man behind the legend while he unearths old letters, lost manuscripts, people who knew Corvo. The book is the story of a personality. It is also the story of the story. The trail begins in 1925 when Symons first hears of his man through reading Hadrian the Seventh, Corvo's tale of a young English Catholic who becomes Pope. Struck by its power and originality, he makes inquiries about the author, hears many a contradictory yarn, grows curious, turns literary detective...
...Ceylon?and young Tony Croom (Frank Lawton), who meets Lady Clare on the boat to London and falls violently in love with her. In London, Lady Clare and Tony Croom enjoy each other's company ecstatically but not improperly. Nonetheless, when Sir Gerald sets a detective on their trail, he finds them dozing together in an old Ford roadster. The result is an action for divorce which makes one of the most striking courtroom scenes of the season...
...Klondike River, in Canada's Yukon Territory, was the place to go for gold. As the summer neared its close the trail from the fields down through White Pass to the Alaskan port of Skagway was a jostling procession of prospectors. On Aug. 13 the Islander, 240-ft. pride of the Skagway-Victoria Line, steamed out of port with a 61-man crew, 108 passengers, a dozen stowaways, began threading its way through the narrow straits. At 2 a. m., when most of the passengers had reeled off to bed, the Islander hit something with a mighty impact, sank...
TRUTH CAME OUT&151;E. R. Punshon&151;Houghton Mifflin ($2). Following the trail of a prussic acid theft, Sergeant Bell of Scotland Yard blunders his way into an inspectorship, following his self-denied solution of the crime...