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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...since 1792 when 24 brokers agreed to buy & sell from each other under the big buttonwood tree in Wall Street had the New York Stock Exchange taken such a momentous step...
...noble savage and the noble civilizer. If Authoress Holtby were not so entertaining, her carefully unmoralized tale might cause some well-clothed shudders. Prettily executed and often good for a laugh, Mandoa, Mandoa! may well seem to thoughtful readers a shrewd axe-blow at the roots of an aging tree. Mandoa, an (imaginary') independent country to the west of Abyssinia, was complacently self-sufficient. Small, poor but proud, it was a nominal matriarchate actually ruled by a small male aristocracy, supposedly Christian but actually savage, subsisting on the slave trade. When a U.S. cinema company was stranded...
...rare volume from a museum. Mixed identity and murder place in the action, as does a vital clue dated four centuries ago. The motive is explained after the solution is reached, and the supreme greatness of Lane is shown as a final curtain. THE PUZZLE OF THE PEPPER TREE- Stuart Palmer-Crime Club ($2). Vacationing on Catalina Island, School-Teacher Hildegard Withers follows her hunch about death in an airplane. Without Oscar Piper by her side, with a casual police and an earthquake to hinder, Miss Withers emerges triumphant. THE CASE OF THE SULKY GIRL-Erie Stanley Gardner-Morrow...
...play golf and tennis. "The boys take me along because I keep quiet. I can't play a darn thing myself," she confessed. "My few idiosyncrasies, if you want to know them are: I always wear all black or white: I never go on the other side of a tree or post when anyone is passing; I like almost anything: and I've never fallen in love--maybe because I don't know many Harvard...
Under the University Museum the same department keeps a smaller collection consisting of 30 garter snakes, a boa constrictor, a copperhead, a dozen turtles, 10 tree frogs, a pair of chamma which is a type of oriental fish, a newt, a crayfish and a few frogs...