Word: waine
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...author, Arthur Stuart Menteth Hutchinson, to flee precipitately from England to the Balearic Islands. The success of Author Hutchinson's latest tome, The Soft-Spot, a painfully mannered and prolix dissection of an Englishman with a talent for sponging, should cause him no such embarrassment whatever. Stephen Wain developed the habit of living off his half-brother Maxwell, a wealthy explorer, when they shared diggings in Bayswater, where Stephen studied architecture. Later, as a practicing architect, he was too obliging to examine closely the shoddy materials his friends the contractors supplied him. Consequently he got a bad reputation, lapsed...
Kipling's scriptural utterance (that "East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet") is made to appear more pontifical than profound by Authoress Wain's House of Exile, an autobiographical record of how a U. S. woman became an adopted member of an ancient, aristocratic Chinese family. Readers of Authoress Waln's book will feel that Kipling's quotation should be amended: for "East" read "Boxers"; for "West," "Little Englanders...
...pound Freshman, dormitory. After the cameramen, who were stationed on the Weld and Newell floats and balconies, had photographed the whole procession, the University and 150-pound crews made a few exhibition racing starts and the Lowell House oarsmen posed for special pictures with and without derbies. The cox wain of the latter eight were a plug...