Word: conventions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...York to which she goes back in its pages is the New York of her girlhood, speculatively remembered. That she had lately to send Mr. Bender home to Denmark, an incurable invalid, did not lighten her labors. The Dewing girls, Mary and Elizabeth Ann, attend a Manhattan convent of English nuns...
BELLARION - Rafael Sabatini - Houghton Mifflin ($2.50). Mr. Sabatini's new hero is but a few hours out of the convent where he has grown from a nursling to huge-thewed manhood, when he finds himself racing through the footways of Casale with angry pikemen after him. He pauses by a studded door like the Sire de Maletroit's door in Stevenson and is vastly relieved to find it unlocked. Within is a tawny-headed damsel who, after she has concealed the handsome fugitive, quite alters his plan to study Greek at the University of Pavia. No lady...
...suckers who took the excursion to Niagara return, and ten minutes, spent watching the Memorial Day paraders straggle down Mass. Avenue, have emboldened me. Even one who has never been present at one of the soirees at the Lamb's Club, or has never baited poor literatae from the Convent up Brattle Street, dares to have his fling. And since I'm asking, how do you like your fling...
...Elizabeth Robins Pennell was a Phila delphia girl, born in 1855. Educated in a Paris convent and at Eden Hall (Torresdale, Pa.), she married Joseph Pennell in her 30th year. She is the author of a life of Mary Wollstonecraft and (with her hus band) of a life of Painter Whistler...
...much befuddled biography. It is, however, generally agreed that she was born in Saragossa, in Aragon, Spain, between 30 and 40 years ago. Some say that her parents were performers. She was taught to sew?at which art she went nearly blind once?and to sing Vespers in a convent, from which she escaped with the help of the gardener's ladder...