Word: absorbents
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...River." The Significance. After hearing about show boats from Mr. Winthrop Ames, and rushing into the Midlands to amass properties and backdrops for a panoramic old-American production, Miss Ferber appears to have been so overcome by her discoveries that she felt justified in asking the audience to absorb and admire the stage-setting for 153 pages, before putting her characters in motion. Similarly, the reconstruction of Chicago is rich, racy but redundant. Splendid characters and material are worn down by overuse of the catalog sentence, repetition of scenes. Nevertheless, the material and characters are splendid; the theme broad, native...
...this summer that Richards had trounced him. In the match that afternoon, Tilden's stroking had been sodden and erratic; now frantic, now listless. After a week of brilliance, he had had a sorry relapse, which even the time-worn expedient of playing in his. sock feet to absorb, Anteus-like, some grip and vigor from the moist earth, had failed to dispel. Richards had pressed matters with even fury, dancing securely on his spikes. Tilden, leaping and slipping like a tipsy stork, had withstood him scarely at all. Some people were saying that the theatre* had "gotten" long...
Here artificial fertilizers must be brought on in the form of some soluble salt of potassium, soluble so that the plant may absorb it through its roots...
...problem, it seems to me," continues Mr Codman, "is whether the Federal Government of this country shall actually absorb the functions of the States so that they are no longer sovereign as provided in the Constitution. Also whether the same government shall establish a paternalism over the individual citizen, directing his activities from the cradle to the gravel or whether, on the contrary, we shall return to the theory of our fathers...
...Hartley?Putnam ($2). Demonstrating what might conceivably befall a high-caste Boston nymph when exposed to the languorous breath of Venice. Lavinia Johnstone, preserved by her friends as the symbol of their bloodless conventionality, undergoes strange fevers in the presence of a champion gondolier, calls herself Simonetta Perkins to absorb the shock, bids him?late one night?take her up an obscure canal, hesitates, is lost, countermands the order. Author Hartley admires Author Max Beerbohm...