The Girl in the Or A Elizabeth Jordan
Laurie Devon a successful playwright attends his sister Barbara's wedding to claim the Devon fortune. Once a gay young man, he has tempered his ways this past year under Barbara's influence and now plans rest and adventure rather than steady work.
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Laurie Devon
Barbara
Devon
Laurie
Bangs
Rodney
Epstein
Two Partners Face Crisis and Unexpected Window View
Laurie and Bangs, theater partners, clash over work and loyalty amid a strained Jan to Feb period. A chance view of a distant studio window reveals a melancholy young woman, heightening tension and foreshadowing change in their dynamic.
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Laurie
Bangs
Devon
Rodney
Mary
Barbara
Missouri News Nuggets and Local Updates
A roundup from Pemiscot to Wright counties reports large cotton prospects despite leaf worm damage and heavy rains. Estimator M. Barnes cites an $18.5 million crop and 200000 bales for Southeast Missouri. Other items note Missouri dry laws protest, floods around Fulton, university conferences, bank embezzlement charges, bond votes, obituaries, and agricultural harvest figures.
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Marston
Missouri
Columbia
University of Missouri
Fulton
Loutre Creek
Mineola Hill
Montgomery-Callaway
Walter M. Harrison
Missouri Highway Department
St. Louis
State Department of Vocational Education
Jefferson City
Cape Girardeau
J. H. Kiesler
Perry County
Marble Hill
Kiesler
Appleton
Frohna
Seymour
Mercy Cut No Figure in Old-Time Justice
An article recounts the wheel torture used in Europe history. It details the wheel method in Germany and the cross frame in France with mercy blows and eventual abolition after the revolution.
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Germany
France
Failed Talents Turn Critics Reflect on History and Art
The quotation suggests that those who pursue poetry, history, or biography but fail often become critics. Coleridge notes critics arise from unfulfilled creative ambitions and habitually judge rather than create.
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Coleridge
Beau Nash the stately wit of eighteenth century Bath
Richard Nash known as Beau Nash, born in 1674 in Wales, studied law but turned to gambling, shaping Bath into a fashionable resort by 1704. Bath honored him with a statue between Newton and Pope. He died at eighty seven after his gambling income diminished by parliamentary suppression.
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Bangs
Rodney
Epstein
Haxon
Big Bertha
Beau
Beau Nash
Richard Nash
Wales
Bath
Newton
Pope
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