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  • In his 1931 book, "Preface to Fiction," the American writer and critic Robert Morss Lovett noted that there was a time "when to speak of a novel was to imply a love story."

    The Best Love Stories Cynthia Crossen 2011

  • The affirmation of the irrational, Susan Buck-Morss has written, resulted in

    Liberal at Columbia 2007

  • Karen Luscombe, Karen Morss, and Helena Smalman-Smith, for reading drafts and giving me greater confidence as I found my voice as a writer.

    Rowing the ATLANTIC Roz Savage 2009

  • Karen Luscombe, Karen Morss, and Helena Smalman-Smith, for reading drafts and giving me greater confidence as I found my voice as a writer.

    Rowing the ATLANTIC Roz Savage 2009

  • Robert Morss Lovett - which have shown an authentic interest in contemporary creative literature.

    Sinclair Lewis - Nobel Lecture 1930

  • _ Morss, 150 U.S. 221 (1893): Applying the principle of the umbrella to a skirt form.

    The Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation Annotations of Cases Decided by the Supreme Court of the United States to June 30, 1952 Edward Samuel Corwin 1920

  • Nicky hadn't even waited to sign his name in the margins before he had packed the plans in his dispatch box and taken them to the works, and thence, hidden under a pile of Morss estimates, to Eltham.

    The Tree of Heaven May Sinclair 1904

  • Too busy with his assistant manager's job at the Morss Motor Works; too busy with one of the little ideas to which he owed the sudden rise in his position: the little idea of making the Morss cars go faster; too busy with his big Idea which had nothing whatever to do with the Morss

    The Tree of Heaven May Sinclair 1904

  • She had joined a motor-ambulance as chauffeur, driving the big Morss car that Anthony had given to it.

    The Tree of Heaven May Sinclair 1904

  • The Morss was caught in a line blocked at the bottom of Albemarle St.eet by two streams of cars, mixed with two streams of foot passengers, that poured steadily from Piccadilly into St. James's St.eet.

    The Tree of Heaven May Sinclair 1904

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