Word: stacks
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...John Weld-Scribner ($2.75). John Weld's novel recounts the ardors, agonies and occasional pleasures of a wagon train in its ox-paced procession, in the year 1846, from Independence, Mo. to California. The collective difficulties stack up, in the course of nearly 500 pages, into considerable pain and narrative power. The troubles of the naively conceived individuals are considerably less impressive...
Lady David Douglas-Hamilton, 25, better known by her maiden name, Prunella Stack, best known as Britain's Perfect Woman because she heads Women's League of Health & Beauty (founded by her mother), announced in London that she and her husband, the boxing Marquess of Clydesdale, hope for a perfect baby in June. Said she: "I am keeping myself fit for the event...
Standpat Southerners deny such stories with heat and hatred; non-Southerners know too little to have any right to an opinion. Author Caldwell's taste for close crowding of extremes of cruelty, pity, irony, inconsistency and comedy, his occasional tendency to stack his cards, still further obscure these important facts: that the South is a country of incredible extremes; that for all his faults Caldwell is one of the best and fairest recorders of them...
...education is happier, learns better work habits, and feels himself more a member of the community, than the boy who is simply given the money he needs, without any productive service being required of him. Replying that a student can find better things to do with his time than stack books away, particularly if he is preparing himself for the "learned professions," Mr. Conant places himself in the other camp, and advocates straight financial aid of the Harvard National Scholarship variety...
Like its author, Through China's Wall defies classification. It is part exquisite travel book, part exciting history, part exotic philosophy. But above all it is a portrait portfolio of a race. In deft, humorous, economical sketches, it explains (better than a whole stack of dry-as-dust commentaries) why the Chinese people lose battles but somehow win wars. Typical snapshots...