Books and BipedsArgus Books, 1947 - 258 pages "In a word, 'Books and Bipeds' is for the most part a selection of paragraphs from my weekly book column in the "Chicago Sunday Tribune'..." -- foreword. |
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Page 58
... became a problem . Beatty , a local ne'er - do - well , appears to have nursed private grievances dating from the construction of Kipling's Vermont home , at Brattleboro , shortly after the wedding . By this and by that , they took ...
... became a problem . Beatty , a local ne'er - do - well , appears to have nursed private grievances dating from the construction of Kipling's Vermont home , at Brattleboro , shortly after the wedding . By this and by that , they took ...
Page 124
... became a partner in the great shipping enterprise inaugurated by his uncle . Almost An American Of the many English writers , great and small , who almost became Americans , none had a narrower escape than Leigh Hunt , who was half ...
... became a partner in the great shipping enterprise inaugurated by his uncle . Almost An American Of the many English writers , great and small , who almost became Americans , none had a narrower escape than Leigh Hunt , who was half ...
Page 217
... became a best sel- ler and Mrs. Trollope , seizing opportunity by the throat , became a highly successful third - rate profes- sional novelist . Thereby she earned enough money to give her husband the leisure he required for a study of ...
... became a best sel- ler and Mrs. Trollope , seizing opportunity by the throat , became a highly successful third - rate profes- sional novelist . Thereby she earned enough money to give her husband the leisure he required for a study of ...
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