Word: wellses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Francis Wells Hunnewell: For twenty years the beloved Secretary, who amid the rapids has helped to make the boat run smoothly on her course.
This thesis seems vindicated by the resignation of the defeated Chiang, and the termination of the menace which his unbridled hosts held for foreign interests in Manchuria. There is much pith in the remark that Japan might also have been literal about Chinese treaties if an anarchic China had been...
No cloistered literary man, Bennett knew so many prominent people of his day that it would be easier to list those he did not know than those he did. Member of no literary school, he was on friendly terms with such irreconcilables as the Sitwells, H. G. Wells, Shaw, Noel...
"MEMORIES of a Misspent Youth" is no mere book of memoirs basking in the glory of the great. It does, to be sure, tell much about the glamorous literary London of the nineties. It gives personal reminiscences of such diverse figures as Aubrey Beardsley and H. G. Wells. It includes...
I Cover the Waterfront (United Artists) exhibits a new way to smuggle Chinese houseboys into San Diego: in the stomachs of large sharks, whose mouths are propped open so that their inmates can breathe. This sordid aid to immigration is devised in I Cover the Waterfront by a grizzled old...