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...ZEST FOR LIFE-Johan W011er-Knopf ($2.50). Sumatra again, as remembered by an esthetic Dane, who, 30 years ago, a copy of Keats's poems in his pocket, participated in the last of the native wars which from 1872 cost the Dutch forces over...
...Cuban Marquise de Casa Maury and before that the London modiste's mannequin Paula Gellibrand. H. R. H. Marina, Duchess of Kent, was described by News-Review as having "drifted from the smart set and left her husband to go the smart socialite rounds for them both . . . with zest." In London the Beaverbrook Daily Ex press (circulation 2,040,000) broke the Kent & Mrs. Allen story in Britain's daily press, sharply editorialized: "One way to keep clear of such news is not to do the things that make such news." Not so the august London Times (circulation...
...much more liberal allotment of funds for direct expenditures in the control of the venereal diseases." Under Josephine Roche, sociologically-minded Assistant Secretary of the Treasury who opened last week's Conference, Dr. Parran has $10,000,000 to carry out the 1937 campaign. Brimming with zest, the conferees last week urged Dr. Parran to ask Congress for another...
Whether the new men take advantage of the opportunity is up to them and their prospective hosts. The cuisine of Adams House may be a welcome weekly relief to the roast beef au joos of the Union, and the Winthrop House waitresses may lend a zest to the Freshman's appetite that has been desperately absent since he came under the wings of Mother Murray and her Brood...
...crowded household as well as a general bettering of their economic situations. Even Harvey's city wife indirectly contributes to the common welfare, since she reminds gruff Tom of an old sweetheart, thus softens him a little without actually leading him into sin. Sometimes Author Thomas, despite her zest for writing about the homely details of farm life, comes perilously close to setting her characters in situations where a showdown would be inevitable-e.g., when Tom's wife recognizes the reasons for Tom's increasing amiability. But by the time Edna has fractured her back...