Word: westing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Adolph Walter Samborski '25 of West-field was elected captain of next year's basketball team when this season's quintet assembled at Notman's studio yesterday afternoon for the annual photograph. The vote was unanimous...
...suicide. The author of the controversial Kimono has again scratched off the customary Oriental glamour and uncovered a realistic-at times amusing, at times sordid-picture of Japanese life. Beneath the rather melodramatic narrative runs an undercurrent of real seriousness, a sense of inscrutable, unconquerable differences between East and West, a shadow of the intangible fatalism of the Orient that is at once its peril and its charm...
PRANCING NIGGER-Ronald Firbank -Brentano ($2.00). With such a title, the reader knows what to expect. He is not disappointed, for he is soon afloat in a sea of fantastic nonsense. Purporting to be a study of British West Indian life and manners, this book leaves one with a dizzying sense of relief that the British West Indies are far away. Carl Van Vechten's whimsical preface proclaims Firbank to be the "only authentic master of the light touch, a man who might be writing with his eyelashes or the tips of his polished finger-nails." Which...
...West Entry--J. M. Newell...
...West Entry--R. G. Norris...