Word: adonises
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Alec (the "I" of the story) is a rich man's son, nearing 40 but still with no visible means of support other than periodic parental checks. A member of The Brook, most select of Manhattan clubs (where there are "always amusing fellows . . . ready for anything"), Alec divides his...
Wearing his customary expression of befuddled disdain, 230 lb. Jim Browning last week climbed into a Manhattan ring to defend his "world's heavyweight wrestling championship" against lithe, indignant-looking Sandor Szabo, the "Hungarian Adonis." After 50 minutes of serious wrestling, in which Browning broke most of Szabo'...
HOT WATER - P. G. Wodehouse - Doubleday, Doran. Like Amos 'n' Andy, Charles Dickens and other classics, Author Pelham Grenville Wodehouse some time ago began to pay the penalty of fame. His patter still amuses but its pattern is growing a thought too familiar. Not that Author Wodehouse never...
Through the generosity of Lee Hart, of Rochester, New York, a copious oak exhibition case has been placed in the Lowell House Library, where it will remain in the possession of the House, and will be used from time to time for exhibits of books and other relics. The first...
From her birth on the foam of the Mediterranean to her final disappearance from the medieval German castle of Venusberg, Venus's career consisted of little but amatory adventures. Author de Miomandre's account does not pretend to be exhaustive, but it hits the high spots: her marriage...