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...chafed under his kindness, marveled that he could forgive her former infidelity, suspected him of retaliating in kind. This finally the good SIGRID UNDSET She did Nobel work at night. man did. Immediately he rued it, lavished yearly more tenderness upon his ailing wife, while she?sad martyr?bore him son after still-born son. Thus The Snake Pit, part two of the tetralogy, ends with the master's murder still unconfessed, unatoned; and promises tremendous cumu lative tragedy in the two unwritten volumes. Less vigorous than the earlier volumes The Snake Pit necessarily strikes a minor...
...smartest of the setters, whipped into a point. The President walked up and-blam-missed the single bird that whirred away. There were four more points, four more blams. Not a feather was cut. The President went home "skunked." Col. Starling suggested that the trouble was the full-choke bore of the Presidential gun, patterned for trapshooting rather than live game. From the way he shrugged and scowled, it seemed the President blamed his bulky green mackinaw. Or perhaps it was the ten-gallon...
Kingdom of Neptune. Over the Maryland's side clambered a piratical visitor who said he was Davy Jones, emissary of King Neptune. He bore warrants to arrest some 800 of the 1,300 officers, men, guests on board who had never before crossed the Equator. Mr. & Mrs. Hoover were exempt, he being a "shellback" with 14 crossings of the Equator to his credit, more than anyone else present except his naval aide, Commander A. T. Beauregard...
...smash-finish of the play brings on Lindbergh Number Two, played by M. Pierre Tristan, who never realized that he resembled the Colonel until a Paris mob recently descended upon him (TIME, Oct. 1) and bore him shoulder high, under the impression that the real Lindbergh had slipped back to Paris...
...Washington and colleagues got the United States functioning under its present Constitution, a baby was born in Virginia and baptized John Tyler. Fifty-one years later John Tyler was inaugurated tenth President of the United States, Twelve years after that, when he was 63, John Tyler's wife bore him a son in Virginia. Seven years later she bore a daughter to 70-year-old John Tyler. The son, baptized Lyon Gardner Tyler, lived to be President-Emeritus of William and Mary college. Shortly after his 70th birthday Lyon Gardner took a second wife (Sue Ruffin, whose ancestor fired...