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Some readers may recognize Lin Yü-t'ang (My Country and My People}, but Lu Hsün, "China's Chekhov," and Mao Tun, "perhaps the outstanding novelist of China today," will be new acquaintances...
...building up his hero Biographer Bryant does not overplay his hand. He admits that Pepys. after the death of his wife, "formed a connection" with one Mary Skinner, that he delighted in the emoluments and furbelows of his high office, that he accepted presents occasionally-red sprats, a tun of Rhenish wine, even a tame lion...
...father. Mike Moss persuaded the Vaccaros to invest their millions in things other than bananas. They bought the famed Grunewald Hotel, paying for it with Liberty Bonds dug out of a safety deposit box. They rebuilt it as the Roosevelt, "biggest hotel in the Deep South." Mike Moss, a tun-bellied man with a tiny bald head, was made manager. The Vaccaros backed Union Indemnity with slender, bespectacled, drawling Brother Irving Moss as president. New Orleans, where race is viewed frankly, chuckled: "Watch what happens now! The Jews have got their hooks in the Dagoes...
According to Mara in a few days Tun ney called on him and told him he was "out of the contract." "I asked him what he meant and he said: 'How can I afford to pay you 25% and Billy Gibson 25% and that 25% that Gibson tied me up for in Philadelphia? Here I toil and sweat up in the mountains. . . .' He ran his hands through his hair and said in a loud voice 'I don't know what this is all about...
...seconds. Play was ragged and sheddy but was characterized by the coaches as a typical Monday workout Devens Forbes and Fullam playing with the A.B. and C backfields respectively went over the line for the first team Devens counted his after about five minutes of scrimmage, after a tun by Ticknor on an intercepted mpass had put the ball deep in second team territory...