Word: morrow
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...huffs & puffs through an interminable, blowhard melodrama. Frances Parkinson Keyes's The Great Tradition (Messner, $2.50) pictures in drawing room prose the democratic gropings of a German-U. S. aristocrat in Germany and revolutionary Spain. A cut above them is W. Townend's Rescue of Captain Leggatt (Morrow, $2.50), naively melodramatizing the enmity and brotherly reconciliation of a British and a German sea captain...
...ISLAND LADY- Francis Griswold- Morrow...
...Silvercruys of New York City told Canadians she was glad her memorial commemorating Lindbergh's Paris flight had been broken in shipment. The Communist weekly, New Masses, said the speech revealed the "intricate conspiracies of the House of Morgan." (Anne Lindbergh is the daughter of the late Dwight Morrow, Morgan partner...
...Davis will come to Smith as soon as Cornell lets him go; meanwhile Mrs. Dwight W. Morrow* will continue as Smith's acting president. To Smith's girls, impatient to see their new prexy, Dr. Neilson last week reported that after considering 100 candidates the trustees had elected Mr. Davis "very enthusiastically." Said he: "In general personality and the scholarly and executive qualities that seemed to be demanded, Professor Davis proved to be just what we wanted...
...FROM THE SOUTH SEAS-Margaret Mead-Morrow ($4). Dr. Mead's three books, Coming of Age in Samoa, Growing Up in New Guinea, and Sex and Temperament in Three Primitive Societies, are here reprinted in one volume, with a new preface. These gently acute, strongly persuasive studies of the power of custom are well known to every anthropologist and to many thoughtful laymen. Their usefulness, particularly to those who are most directly responsible in the training of children, is by no means yet exhausted...