Word: vets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Roosevelvet: "the charming Roosevel-vet manner...
Because they are full of martial naïveté, doll-like action and nicely faded coloring, these pictures delight shrewd, big-boyish Manhattan Publisher Bennet A. Cerf, who last year published The Public Papers & Addresses of Franklin D. Roosevelt. Last week Publisher Cerf announced that his Random House will publish the Meyers drawings this year, with an introduction by Mr. Roosevelt-a Presidential picture book in a limited edition of 1,000 copies...
...Fashion news," that mélange of contradictions and bug-eyed naïvetés, made sense to nobody, will make sense only as weeks go by and a certain number of the high-priced creations, paraded last week, begin to appear, in copies, on millions of U. S. women. A few broad trends were seen, however, by practiced observers. At the end of the week unofficial tabulations revealed that the skirt, so far as length was concerned, was precisely where the summer left it - 13½ to 15½ in. from the ground. But full skirts, ranging from...
Soon the setter's plume drooped and he trotted slowly home. Police dog and collie also turned tail, as did the low-slung, swaybacked little dachshund. The setter's owner rushed him to a veterinarian, where he shortly died. Said the "vet": "Someone has given this dog cyanide of potassium...
Readers of Evelyn Scott's The Wave (1929) were much impressed, ranked it among the best Civil War novels vet written. Her books since then have been a continuous disappointment. Last week she annoyed, depressed and bored nearly everyone in sight with a 488-page novel "on the artist and the creative problem." Bread and a Sword was Evelyn Scott's third exhaustive mangling of the same unpopular theme; readers cheered her announcement that it was likely to be her last word on the subject...