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Gold gave San Francisco 13 dailies, several times as many weeklies, literary journals which flourished without advertising. These combined serious poems with miners' correspondence, frontier burlesque and tall tales with such polished articles as "An Epitome of Goethe's Faust," pirated novels such as Bleak House with condensed news columns called "Eastern intelligence." ("One of the pioneers of Washoe, James A. Rogers, blew his brains out, September 2nd. Cause: discouraged...
Outside of typical Grade B weakness, "The Hound of the Baskervilles" rates a passing grade as a mystery thriller. The horror of the bleak, English moors--which is almost becoming the screen character of His Majesty's isle--is well supported by the business-like Sherlock of Basil Rathbone and a very satisfying "elementary, my dear Watson" by Nigel Bruce...
...Skeels told how he took 13 mentally retarded pre-school infants away from a bleak Iowa orphanage packed with healthy, intelligent moppets, and placed them in a home for feeble-minded girls. The inmates lavished upon the deficient babies a wealth of feeble-minded love. They made them toys, watched them play, gave them plenty of room to run around. Within two years, to the psychologist's amazement, the intelligence quotients of twelve of the orphans rose sharply, in some cases as much as 40 points, and they appeared superior in intelligence to their playmates in the asylum. Later...
...Marquis Quińones de León, Generalissimo Franco's French representative, made ready to move into the big, bleak Avenue George V Embassy, and in London the Duke of Alba, Generalissimo Franco's agent to Britain, prepared to take up quarters in the imposing Spanish Embassy in Belgrave Square. Opposition M. P.s cried "Shame!" and "Betrayal!" in the House of Commons when Mr. Chamberlain announced the recognition of Generalissimo Franco; in France Socialist leader Léon Blum felt "nauseated" when M. Daladier made his announcement to the Chamber of Deputies. But both the Chamber...
...drapes, sitting at his easel, squinting at her, measuring her with his thumb, dabbing at his canvas so laboriously and long that Kiki was sure he had painted a good likeness, he declared his work done. Kiki ran around and looked at it. He had painted a great, bleak barn. "Perhaps," says catlike, sleek, sophisticated Kiki, "perhaps it was my farm-girl appearance...