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With the skill of a great composer, the authoress establishes her main theme upon the plan of a symphony. The environment and teachings of the main character Diony Hall form the motif recurrent throughout. Behind the sudden death and vivid reality of the frontier life in Kentuck runs strands of memories from his days in Virginia. Such repetition of familiar ideas is helpful in conveying to the reader the longings of the pioneer woman's soul. The prose is melodiously in keeping with symphonic structure, possessing a meaty sensuousness seldom encounted in modern authors and rising at points to poetry...
...Spain did this," he whispered through half paralyzed lips. "It is Spain that has killed me." Almost instantly he died. Despite their father's warning, Carmen and Pilar returned too late. Cause of death: an embolism, a sudden blood clot on the brain, brought on by diabetes...
Later in the week a bearish development came in the sudden renewal of the Standard of New York-Shell conflict in the Far East. First intimation of this was a report that Shell, which recently cut kerosene in the Far East by 40%, had slashed gasoline from 27½ to 19? in the East Indies. A probable cause: Standard has signed a $25,000,000 contract for Soviet refined products. It was this buying of what Shell calls "stolen oil" that precipitated the conflict between the companies three years ago. Complicating the affair this time is Shell's recent...
...from a dubious past, to decorous Wichita, Kan., captivated Wichita's belle, Sabra Venable, carried her off with him over the protests of her family to help build the new Territory of Oklahoma. They settled in Osage City (a fictitious name), where houses were scarce, water scarcer, whiskey and sudden death plentiful, a man's life worth less than a horse's. Yancey started a newspaper, made many friends, many enemies. At Osage's first church service, held in Arkansas Grafs tent-saloon, Yancey killed his chief rival. The newspaper prospered; Yancey lost interest in it. One day he disappeared...
...former Chief Justice died at 5:15 p. m. A sudden change in his condition occurred at 4:45 p. m. from which he failed to rally...