Word: anticisms
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...Humphrey Ward, educated himself at Eton and Balliol. For two years during his boyhood he was stricken with partial blindness but learned to read Braille embossed type. Now 30, he is the author of nine books The Burning Wheel, The Defeat of Youth, Limbo, Leda, Chrome Yellow, Mortal Coils, Antic Hay, Young Archimedes and Other Sketches, Those Barren Leaves...
...same evening George Dandin, Molière's sophisticated trifle of the uncouth husband who was hoodwinked by his philandering, patrician wife, is revived prettily in a good English translation. But all its antic graces cannot hide the fact that it is a gilded potboiler. It is done in the mode of that simpering, formal period when Truth was nothing and an attitude everything...
...ANTIC HAY-Aldous Huxley-Doran ($2.00). Of Theodore Gumbril, sometime Oxford tutor, and his superb invention - Gumbril's Patent Pneumatic Trousers-They Protect the Lumbar Ganglia and Lend Incisive Poise to Businessmen. Of his extraordinary exploits in Love and Business, under the beaverish protection of a huge, artificial beard. Of Casimir Lypiatt, the boomingly futile would-be genius-and Shearwater, the scientist who investigated sweat- and P. Mercaptan, the snouty-faced amateur of rococo amours-and Myra Viveash with her expiring voice- and Zoe-and Emily-and Rosie-a whole horde of fantastic characters dancing the antic hay around...
...editors are to be congratulated for dropping the antique but not antic, "By the Way." Their gallantry is not, however, to be commended for "The Development of a Boston Girl," and they should look out for the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children if they drive any more jaded candidates to further efforts such as the alleged editorials...
...walls in antic dances...