Love and class clash on a voyage to Goode island
Philip Amory, a World War veteran turned trader on a Papua New Guinea assignment, saves a musical comedy actress nicknamed Gin-Sling. He contemplates Pia Laurier, from the Laurier family of New South Wales, as she greets Sir Richard Fanshaw on departure while his own feelings collide with rigid social barriers.
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Philip Amory
Papua
New Guinea
Pia
Jinny
Pia Laurier
Beter
Goode Island
Phil Amory
Daru Dreams and a Tangled Memory in the South Seas
The narrator reaches Daru on a long Australia crossing and reflects on Pia Laurier and Sir Richard Fanshaw. He recalls a dreamlike Fourth Dimensional moment, the scent of frangipanni, and the island store where he bargains with locals, while a unsettling link to Fanshaw lingers as the scene hints at future revelations.
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Papua
Daru
Australia
Governs
Pia Laurier
Darn
Gome
Pia
Sir Richard Wanshaw
South Sea
Richard Fanshaw
Flowered chiffons lead spring fashion wave for 1930
Julia Bottomley notes couture hails florally adorned evening gowns and day wear with flowered chiffons. Artificial blooms frame necklines and hips, accenting backs and belts. Boutonnieres and lace circlets revive old flower motifs for daytime and evening outfits, with bold prints and new sleeve shapes enhancing feminine styles.
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Directoire
Advice on Reaching Forty Guard Against Dislikes
A psychologist notes that midlife from forty to sixty heightens certain pet peeves and urges removing oneself from tempting scenes. The tale of a boy and a pen illustrates perseverance leading to success as Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch.
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International Congress of Psychology
Sir Arthur Quiller- Couch
Londos
The Kitchen Cabinet poem by Richard Watson Gilder
A fragmentary verse fragment asks What is a sonnet and answers with a pearly shell a distant sea murmur and a jewel carved with care The piece notes a tiny painted picture and reflects on poetic form and content from a 1930 Western Newspaper Union page.
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Richard Watson Gilder
French sauces and roux basics for home cooks
A historical guide explains three roux types brown pale cream and white and offers recipes for white sauce sauce piquante sauce bernai se and nagevate with steps for blending butter flour milk stock and herbs to finish each sauce and serve with meats fish and vegetables.
Various Good Things for Simple Meals and Dishes
A list of pantry style recipes including smoked salmon with butter and croutons, carrot with rice potage, cold roast pork with sausage meat, Turks Tart with rice and marmalade center, rhubarb dessert, beet relish with horseradish, and sour beef served with onions and chervil.
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Sir Richard
Lauriers
Mrs. Laurier
Irwin. Myers
Ces
Ty Beatrice Grimshaw
Cogwright
Hughes Massie Ci
WIL Service
Chapter
Couture
Vanity Fair
Julia. Bottomley
Western Newspaper Union
Pen
Unon
Brillar- Savarin
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