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Philip, hero of The Strange River, is a timid, rich, unambitious young man whose growing neurasthenia takes the uninteresting form of preoccupation with the petty details of his own life. He lives in a menage a trois with his wife, with whom he is only on speaking terms, and his...
Villain of the piece is that somewhat shopworn old devil, the Victorian Age. Monica, only daughter of anxious parents whose every nerve was strained to do the socially right thing, was in a ticklish position from the very start. By her mother, her friends, her teachers it was dinned into...
Last week in Albany Governor Roosevelt was presented with a hard political nut, a 27,000-word document wherein slick little James John ("Jimmy") Walker hotly defended his right to remain Mayor of New York. Replying to the ouster charges filed last June by Counsel Samuel Seabury of the legislative...
"I have always had to work. . . . For the first 40 years of my life I was an employe. When not employed by others, I employed myself. I found very early that being out of hire was not necessarily being out of work. . . . The word 'unemployment' has become one of the...
Selina and Moira run as far & wide over the farm as their nurse will permit. Rosie and Maidie Huggett, the farmer's daughters, who wear men's smocks and help pitch hay, are symbols of a rustic freedom to which the carefully "brought up" city girls aspire. But...