Word: aphoristically
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...critic, aphorist and editor of parts, Cyril Connolly is the latest fashion in bitter elegance in English letters, as his friend George Orwell is the latest fashion in common sense. Connolly's touch of Irish divination and curiosity has given him a greater range than other amateurs of the 18th Century manner. His published pieces yield the vivid image of an Old Etonian still alive and kicking amid the European rubble, somberly turning the pages of psychiatric journals, reaching for the odes of Horace, and composing, with a groan, clever paragraphs to keep his modern anguish under classic control...
...platitude honors, only rival to B. C. the biographer is B. C. the aphorist. Last week, in one 400-word column on how to be successful, he dropped one dozen mottoes, including "Pride prejudices . . . Conceit begets coldness . . . Selfishness shrivels sympathy . . . Almightiness kills admiration. . . ." He also cited Kettering, Owen Young, Willkie, Lincoln to prove that "radiators of happiness . . . multiply contracts as well as contacts...
Died. Earl Derr Biggers, 48, humorist, novelist, playwright, scenario-writer; of heart failure; in Pasadena. His first novel, Seven Keys To Baldpate, was his most famed. His best known fictional character: Charlie Chan, Chinese detective and aphorist...
...already know, gives details as positively and clearly as the motorist's Blue Book. "Women invented love, and men fidelity. No! this is not a paradox. The strongest man hides within him a shamefaced sentimentalist, and the weakest woman a stern realist." Author Paul Géraldy, 45, aphorist. playwright, poet, sometimes called "the de Musset of the 20th Century," is author of Toi et Moi, once largest-selling book of poetry. He has seen many a play of his produced at the Comedie FranÇaise. His wife (stage name: "Mme Lubin") is a onetime opera singer...