Time to wind up the book. The last grouping begins with Ernest Bramah’s The Malignity of the Depraved Ming-Shu Rears its Offensive Head which is an extract from his book Kai Lung Unrolls His …| a hot cup of pleasure
🕵🏻♀️ I remember perfectly when Nancy Drew entered the reading radar of my younger self; it's in between the Enid Blyton and Agatha Christie phases. I also read Hardy Boys, but only a few, it's not as riveting as Nancy Drew (or Alfred Hitchcock's Three Investigators, which came to me at the same phase). The Hidden Staircase was the second in the series, and if I have read it before, I completely forget. So, I have read it as if it's my first Nancy Drew - and I loved it!| Fanda Classiclit
On to the last part of the book: the authors who saw both the nineteenth and the twentieth centuries. There are 39 authors in this section, so I have divided it into two parts. We begin with Ouida,…| a hot cup of pleasure
I give an account below of Keynes life in 1930, the second year of the Great Depression.| Social Democracy for the 21st Century: A Realist Alternative to the Modern Left
Read our introduction for the AFI viewing of Madam Satan a bedroom farce & disaster film by Cecil B. DeMille shown at the Silver Theatre, Md.| Driving for Deco
Cincinnati The bi-annual New York Pier Antique Show was an event that Chris and I always looked forward to. We attended our last on in November, 2015. But due to increasing rental fees, the shows were discontinued in New York City soon thereafter. November, 2015 – Chris heading to Pier 94 for our last Pier […] The post Driving For Deco 2024 – A Look Back on Where We’ve Been: Part One – Netherland Plaza appeared first on Driving for Deco.| Driving for Deco
December 21, 2023 marked the 90th anniversary of the opening of Flying Down to Rio, the first film to team Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. Over the next six years, Astaire and Rogers starred in eight more R-K-O films together. Not only did these films showcase their incredible dancing, they also a showcased 1930s design […] The post Astaire & Rogers and the 1930s Aesthetic Part One: Flying Down to Rio appeared first on Driving for Deco.| Driving for Deco
A librarian friend of mine recently came across a cookbook in our collection that she felt I had to know about! It is The World’s Modern Cook Book and Kitchen Guide for the Busy Woman by Mabel Clai…| Bite From the Past
