Word: wined
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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LESS THAN KIN-Charles Caldwell-John Day ($2). The wine of a girl's life pressed out in California...
...Wine and Amber
...famed San Francisco blackmailer, half Negro and half Sinclair. On her 17th birthday, Adrienne discovers the story of her parentage; meets the mighty Kajetan who promises her empires, leaves her with nothing. Then she finds a youth with burning finger tips. . . . "Did it matter whose feet pressed out the wine of life so long as it flowed? 'I'll go with you,' she said, 'but I won't marry you.'" The remainder of the story is an interesting but disappointing complication of beauty and sordidness. At the end Adrienne thinks she chooses right...
Author Dobie "devoted his daily hours to insurance" until he was 35. Now, at 45, he has written a book most of which is as beautiful as the eyes of Adrienne, clear as the amber of her mother's eyes, rich as the "wine-dark sea" of her father's. The John Day Company (TIME, Sept. 20) has begun its publishing career with a brilliant novel...
While some intoxicated are with Wine...