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...latest fanciful vignette within the covers of a single book. Hard on the reader's wrist, its insistent author's perverse philosophizing is liable to be hard on many a reader's patience too. "Folks 'ud rayther brew their own broth theyselves then be fed wi' all the Milk o' Paradise" is a bit of Penny Pitches' Glastonbury wisdom that fits the odd-lot characters in Author Powys' romance. Glastonbury's broth begins to bubble & boil at the reading of the late Canon William Crow's will. To the disgust...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Perversed English | 4/11/1932 | See Source »

...galleries where hung water color sketches showing ceremonial dances and hunting scenes by living Indian painters. All were in the native tradition, with brilliant color, splendid sense of design, for the most part excellently drawn. Among the best painters: Fred Kabotie, a smiling Hopi, and straight-nosed Ma Pe Wi, from the Rio Grande...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Ugh! Ugh! How! | 12/7/1931 | See Source »

...deal wi' me as severely as ye like," retorted the Scot, "put that in yer pipe and smoke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Parliament's Week: May 11, 1931 | 5/11/1931 | See Source »

...Wi' Bill Brewer, John Stewer, Peter Gurney, Peter Davy, Dan Whiddon Harry Hawk, old Uncle Tom Cobley

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Parliament's Week: Apr. 27, 1931 | 4/27/1931 | See Source »

...Piccadilly London, WI...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 18, 1929 | 11/18/1929 | See Source »

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