Word: wellses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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"After four and a half centuries," said Dr. Charcot to eager Italian correspondents at Paris, "we are just beginning to be able to draw a picture of what Columbus looked like. He was taller than average. He had a long face and a long aquiline nose. His dimpled chin showed...
THE AUTOCRACY OF MR. PARKHAM- H. G. Wells-Doubleday, Doran ($1).
Author Herbert George Wells, onetime first-class novelist and short-story writer, is now propagandist perennial. Lately his novel-pamphlets have preached the necessity of peace. The Autocracy of Mr. Parham, besides much Wellsian argumentation many Wellsian men of straw, gives Author Wells's parable of what will happen...
Mr. Parham, supercilious Cambridge don, meets Sir Bussy Woodcock, self-made millionaire, at a dinner. They are mutually fascinated by each other's queerness. They become occasional companions though never intimates. Sir Bussy's intellect is insatiable, restless; he has the money to gratify his curiosity. When he...
Policewomen. The U. S. has about 1,000 policewomen. Practically all are muscular women, married and graduated from social work. Mrs. Lola J. Baldwin of Portland, Ore., thinks she was the first U. S. policewoman. Mrs. Alice S. Wells of Los Angeles, first (1915) president of the International Association of...