Word: descendants
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...housing obsolescence. The slack has been more than taken up by two or more families sharing what is rated as a one-family house or apartment. During Depression the usual method of doubling up was for young married couples to return to their parents or for parents to descend upon their married children...
...first novel, The Hotel, was bitterly amusing; To the North (TIME, March 13, 1933) was chillingly clever. But readers who had not yet discovered her or had not been scared off by her icy intelligence found in The House in Paris nothing to alarm or repel them, felt it descend on their receptive brows not like a hail of sleet but a gentle dew. Far & away Author Bowen's best book, it is certainly one of the few Grade-A novels that will be published in 1936. Though critics have never yet put Elizabeth Bowen on a par with...
...live in airy disdain of the Hays organization. When Chaplin gets out of jail, the Gamin is dancing in a cabaret whose proprietor agrees to employ Chaplin as a singing waiter. There occurs a scene of tray juggling, followed by the Chaplin song, in gibberish. Juvenile court officials descend on the cabaret to arrest the Gamin. Escaping, she and Chaplin are last seen walking together up that desolate and endless road upon which so many of his films have sadly ended...
Professor Ballantine will play a group of short selections composed of: Brahm's Rhapsody in E flat, and two compositions by Debussy entitled: Et la Lune Descend sur le Temple qui fut, and Jardin sous la Pluie...
Dressed on this occasion in his newest grey clock, hat to match, a sparkling Christmas the, and a mischievous twinkle in his eye, the Vagabond will descend from his Tower this evening--where he has been all too much of late--and sup quite royally on Puree Mongol, honey, skin to the best from the Isles of Greece, Chicken, conceived in the Brook side manner, Peas, from the Birds Eye Foundation and invalidated triple A potatoes. And all prepared in the excellent cuisine of Dunster tradition...