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...great ladies' man, at least a big woman's man. He tells of many a kiss and run. "On one memorable occasion I was compelled to hide under her bed in the same state in which Adam concealed himself from God in the Garden of Eden, because her father, returning home unexpectedly, insisted on talking to her through the half open door of his room while he himself was undressing. Ordinarily, with me at least, a touch of danger intensifies desire." Many a personage has taken Poet Viereck seriously. The late James Gibbons Huneker said of his poems...
Cincinnatians will take note that for the opening scene of her new book, Fannie Hurst has taken care, as is her custom, to have a letter-perfect local nomenclature- Alms & Doepke, Shillito's, Pogue's, Rook-wood Pottery, Eden Park, Avondale. Her story starts in the '90s, when "Over the Rhine" boasted many a beer-garden and German delicatessen dish. Ray Schmidt was good-looking, a blonde whom drummers, even happily married, invariably tried to lure into sin. Everyone liked her and thought the worst. In a day when beer was plentiful and automobiles a stock joke...
Sirs: You will have incurred the wrath of all border readers of TIME, by your reference to the -'Scotch city of Carlyle" (TIME, Nov. 17, p. 22, col. 3). The gazetteer gives: "Carlyle. co. bor. Cumberland, Eng., on River Eden; important railway centre, anc. castle and cathedral, p. 52,600; also t. Penn. U. S. A." In spite of this TIME remains the best of weeklies. W. D. PUGH...
When it became known that Sir William Watson, British poet (The Heralds of the Dawn, Selected poems), was ill and in penury, a national subscription was started for him. Some of the signatories: Hugh Walpole, Rudyard Kipling, John Galsworthy, Eden Phillpotts, George Bernard Shaw...
...Lloyd George might just as well have said, ". . . as if I were Mrs. Elizabeth Tarratt." Mrs. Tarratt is Chancellor Snowden's 85-year-old next door neighbor in Surrey. When aged Mrs. Tarratt built a fence on property adjoining Mr. Snowden's Eden Lodge, the wizened Chancellor promptly had it chopped down, declared it was on public land. Mrs. Tarratt went to the rural council, received a writ declaring that the land was not public but her very own. Last week she ordered a new, indestructible wire fence erected, dared Mr. Snowden to lay a finger...