Word: wile
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Ever since the War, Ford Madox Ford has been writing novels that read like autobiographies (Some Do Not, No More Parades, A Man Could Stand Up, The Last Post). Now he has written an autobiography that reads like a novel. In It Was the Nightingale he has "employed every wile known to me as novelist-the time-shift, the progression d'effet, the adaptation of rhythms to the pace of the action." Author Ford's well-known three-dotty style is not likely to attract many new 'readers at this late date. But his faithful followers will...
...Julius Wile Sons & Co.'s prized agencies include J. & W. Nicholson & Co. (gins and orange bitters, Benedictine), J. A. Gilka (Kümmel), Wed. H. Warnink (Dutch Egg Nogg...
...priest's request, a god once visited her disguised in human flesh. The priests, in despair, then packed her off to Solomon. Unfortunately she sends lovely Zud, her lady-in-waiting, ahead to salute Solomon. He becomes infatuated with Zud, and Balkis has to win her way by wile. It is no peaceful time in Jerusalem. The Ephraimites revolt, the Shebans attempt to steal the holy ark. Zud runs away. Balkis learns a thing or two from Solomon, more elsewhere. Zud takes up with a rural god who, besides his other attributes, owns 500 sheep and a cottage...
...Pity, then, the Evarts-client, Victim of a heartless wile...
...fight over what is one of the most important biological findings in history"-Professor Julian Sorell Huxley of London. Other speakers and a formal resolution politely denounced the recent White House Conference on Child Health & Protection (TIME, Dec. 1) for not mentioning birth control at all. Dr. Ira Solomon Wile of Manhattan called the White House Conference "a total, a complete and excellently devised demonstration of an ostrich policy. This is unjust to the ostrich, however, as it does not bury its head quite so deeply." Otherwise the birth controllers were placid. They reiterated an old boast that their movement...