Word: jacket
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When one considers these minute cameos with reference to Mr. Duff Cooper's production, he is led to suspect that the inspiration which fostered the writing of this book was very similar to that which would lead an elephant into a drawing room. The shoddy jacket blatantly insistent upon the literary value of sex and gambling is, of course, designedly misleading. But there is little relief between the covers. In his three hundred and fifty pages, Mr. Cooper apparently sets out to give a history of France over a period of eighty years, and to place incidental emphasis on Talleyrand...
...been highly praised, it is a reaction not unmixed with perplexity. There are in fact two possible comments on "The Colored Dome," and the position of its author in Irish literature, but the choice between them depends on certain information which is not usually contained in the cover jacket blurb. One would like to know whether this book was written, as it was published, after its author's recent success. "Pigeon Irsh," or whether it is an early work issued on the strength of the previous one. It was "Pigeon Irsh," which this reviewer has not read, that gave...
...reassured, upon approaching a long novel entitled "Inheritance," to find its jacket emblazoned with succeeding generations, to discover that the story begins in 1812 and ends in 1931, and to locate at the back one of those genealogical charts which have so often, of recent date, proclaimed an imitation of the form but scarcely the estimable ability of Mr. Galsworthy. Miss Bentley's story relates, to be brief, the textile history of Yorkshire during the nineteenth century. Of central interest, naturally, is the development of the conflict between capital and labor. And this is handled, as one might expect, through...
...late John Henry Patterson who fired him on sight time & again. The engineering department repeatedly rehired him. For while Inventor Kettering has come by a fortune in his own right he is the antithesis of the successful businessman. He may go to a formal dinner in a sports jacket and not even be aware of it. He has boarded trains without a ticket or a cent...
...Elections resigned from the Minseito to avoid expulsion after dickering with the Seiyukai Party to form a Coalition Cabinet. Japanese Fascism, the Kokumin Domei or National League, is his latest idea. Its flag: a golden eagle on a light brown background. Its uniform: black belted jacket, striped trousers, military cap. Its program: replacement of the Cabinet by a dictatorial council, government control of public utilities and shipping, increase in income tax, death duties, dividend tax; lowering of land taxes and local rates (bait for the farmers and petit bourgeois that are the mainstay of Fascism in every country...