Word: tycoonish
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...unkinder hands than Phyllis Bentley's such a book might be a reductio ad absurdum of both subject and method. But Authoress Bentley's intentions and accomplishment are honorably serious. Though she sets the stage with such reverent care that the reader expects a notable if not tycoonish hero, the curtain has not been up long before alert spectators realize that the spectacle will be unspectacular. Authoress Bentley succeeds, however, in transfiguring her average man into a man-sized hero. Says she: "Why . . . should not one of the crowd, one of those who maintain, those who transmit, have...
...without him, worked on the ranch instead. Then he joined up with an architect; he liked building, but it was not quite It. Jane suddenly appeared and asked him to marry her, to save her from her family who had persuaded her to get engaged to a tycoonish Easterner. Just to be friendly Card went through the ceremony; Jane went East to put that in her family's pipe. Card considered himself bound to Jane until the rightly notorious Mrs. Ballintin thought it would be quaint to have a New Mexican house and got her clutches on Card. Then...
Women. For some reason scientists do not like women in their deliberations or public shows. The American Philosophical Society, which is tycoonish and social as well as scientific, this year elected among 25 new members Walter Sherman Gifford, Frank Billings Kellogg, Dwight Whitney Morrow, Adolph Simon Ochs, John Davison Rockefeller Jr. But no women. Last woman admitted was Agnes Repplier, 73, author and Laetare Medalist, in 1928. Before her was Annie Jump Cannon, 67, Harvard's patient star recorder...
...dangerous Russians) and dictated his terms. When they understood his amazing proposition they scurried to sign. So would you have done. Economists may laugh at Tycoon Rand's slick scheme, but the plain man will admit it makes a good Oppenheim yarn. The Author. Edward Phillips Oppenheim, 64, tycoonish-looking himself, writes stories "because, if I left them on my brain, where they are endlessly effervescing, I would be subject to a sort of mental in digestion." He published his first story at 18, his first novel at 20. He never plots out his books, never knows how they...
...HOUNDS RAN : Four Centuries of Foxhunting-Edited by A. Henry Higginson& #151;Huntington Press ($25).- Though it is usually better to give than to receive, even at Christmas, if you have the remotest interest in fox-hunting you can only be glad if some tycoonish friend bought and bestowed on you this book. Designed and printed by famed Typographer D. B. Updike, illustrated with old prints, engravings, modern drawings, with Forewords by Poet Laureate John Masefield, Edgar Astley Milne (the "sporting parson," co-Master of the Cattislock Hunt, Dorset, England), As Hounds Ran is as complete and readable an anthology...