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THE OFFICE - Nathan Asch - Harcourt, Brace ($2.00). Some staccato words are ripped out. There is The Office: tape, shares, toil, sex, money. The office fails and you go home with the various people whose lives centre in it. A stenographer has to forget the junior partner and marry her boyfriend...
In the Cafe Neant ("Nothingness"), Montmartre, Paris, a soul-sick traveler of life's rugged highway reclined beside a black coffin, gulped beer from a human skull. Amid their falsetto shrieks and groans, other travelers, pleasure-spent, raised skull-mugs to their fleshy lips, thwacked the coffin-lid, toyed with...
Unexpectedly, the Special Federal Grand Jury in the District of Columbia indicted Senator Burton K. Wheeler of Montana for conspiracy to defraud the U. S. of oil and gas lands in his home state. The alleged fraud is of the most ancient and bewhiskered type , in the land-grabbing business...
The Thundering Herd shows buffalos on the plains of the western U. S., hundreds of thousands of buffalos, all thundering. Where white men live on that noise, building fires of buffalo chips to cook buffalo steaks, love lifts its old song. Zane Grey wrote the book. Eulalie Jennings is the...
One night in 1886 they were giving Aida at the Rio de Janeiro Opera House. A new conductor had the baton. He showed nervousness; the great house stirred uneasily. He bungled a pianissimo passage, he brought in his strings raggedly; a sinister sibilant flew round the galleries. "Hiss-sss-sss...