Word: turning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...entitled "The Woman of Andros," my first novel--in the sense that the others were collections of novelettes. The new book is laid in the islands of the Aegean about 400 B. C. and, is based on the retrospective action of a comedy of Terence. Terence's play in turn was based on a lost original of Menander, so that the pilfering is merely contagious...
...grandmother by marrying the florist's son instead. Wesley proved unfaithful, unbearable; but Missie did not divorce him in spite of her love for an excellent man, the successor to the florist's son. The reasons: her sacred marriage vows, her duty to her son. That the son should turn on her years later seemed but the fitting sequel to a selfless, pathetic life...
...love in a tall tower east of the sun and west of the moon. At the present time there are still many young people who are searching for an ideal that seems to be just as securely hidden. The modern youth movement since the war has been attempting to turn the world upside down to find its princess of liberty, and there is every indication that she too is hiding in that ancient stone tower. At any rate, the governments of Europe especially are tiring of this excitement, so the Communistic party in Russia has decided to purge itself...
...capacity audience which crowded into Phillips Brooks House yesterday afternoon gave Gipsy Smith a hearty reception when the remarkable evangelist came across the river to turn his attention to the undergraduates...
...drawn every week. Though a very beggar may have but 50 centesimi (2½?), one of the 150 state banks will let him risk his all. Shoals of poor people win petty sums every week. But naturally the most stupendous prizes-paid on luckiest combinations of lucky numbers-turn up only once or twice in a decade. Six years ago $2,000,000 was won on the series 8, 65, 90, and ever since, with a peculiar fatalism, thousands of people in Southern Italy have been backing these same numbers every week...