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...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...
...fair example of this Elizabethan lust for life that is satisfied by Boston's Home Picture Newspaper, the following headlines called from two pages may be cited: Madman Kidnaps Auto Driver. Vodka Homicide, Dies in Auto Blaze, Air Vet Held in Matricide, Dead Beside Prayers, Find Body of Girl Severed, Battle Today on Bertolini, and Hot Knife Halts Bleeding, while corporate liquidation is taken advantage of by the merry police, who drag the river bottom in "the hope of stirring up more of the body...
With this spinal cord of a narrative to hold it together, Kit Brandon is less diffuse than Sherwood Anderson's earlier novels, and Kit's candid puzzlement lacks the somewhat forced naïveté that weakened Beyond Desire and Dark Laughter. Sometimes the author intrudes with speculations about machinery, forest conservation, unemployment, strikes, the TVA, but his interruptions are brief and often effective. "The reader should bear in mind," he says simply, in describing Kit's marriage, "that Kit Brandon was and is a real person, a living American woman. How much of her real story...