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...only safe hours to hit the Keith Memorial Theater these days. At any other time you are likely to run into a foul little film called "Child of Divorce," whose buck-toothed protagonist is the most trenchant argument yet for birth control. But though the main feature involves another set of buck teeth, this time attached to Miss Tierney, they are fairly easily forgotten in the whimsical flow of this Anglicized Twentieth Century Fox picture...
Recalling with some pride his adventures in local boudairs and bagnios, he offered what he described as "humble but trenchant" advice to aspirants of the higher life: "Keep your hair long, and your fingers nails long," he said. "Remain at room temperature but warm before serving. Wear a blue blazer and gay-flannel ducks...
...that the trucking strike in London has presumably been settled--on the strikers' terms--the vivid drama of another government's wrestle with the labor problem will no longer be flashing danger signals in front of American congressmen. The course of the strike would bear trenchant reading for those who believe government intervention is the key to labor peace...
This new biography has been greeted in England as the first really satisfactory life of England's great romantic poet. U.S. critics should agree that, though Newman Ivey White's trenchant and scholarly two-volume Shelley (1940) has more information, Edmund Blunden's book has all that's necessary for a solid interpretation. A very fair poet himself, Blunden writes of Shelley devotedly, but with the ease and savor of long personal familiarity-not only with Shelley's works, but with his period (1792-1822), the scenes in which he lived and the mass...
...from Indiana, two-time Pulitzer Prizewinner (The Magnificent Amber sons, 1919; Alice Adams, 1922), whose heirs included Willie Baxter, Penrod and Sam, Monsieur Beaucaire; after long illness; in Indianapolis. In the generation of Hoosier writing which produced James Whitcomb Riley and George Ade, he carved his niche with tender, trenchant satire on U.S. life and manners. A tremendous worker, he wrote 60 novels and plays, drove himself so hard that he once lost his eyesight. In the belief that pleasure should pay, he financed upkeep of his Kennebunkport, Me. home with chucklers about summer people (Mary's Neck), helped...