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...current criticism shows that these are occasionally making an appearance. When Sinclair Lewis began his poking at the ribs of American life, he created no definite characters. He was interested alone in showing his own revolt at the existence with which his characters were faced. But with "Arrow-Smith" came force, and he had made a living being. Dreiser's characters fade before the gloom of their background dos Passos' get lost in the subway jams of Times Square. But each has an occasional flicker of reality, of being, like mannikins in a show window they sometimes seem alive...
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...Walkerton, Ind., a farmer opened a mound, disclosed eight skeletons, one of them clad in copper armor, lying feet together like spokes in a wheel. A giant for stature had a flint arrow head embedded in his skull. The bones appeared to be of Mound Builders...
...shoot an arrow from a six-foot yew-bow, to hit a golf ball, to throw a baseball, to cast a heavy fishing-slug for distance in the surf -manly exercises all. But does the missile fly farthest from rod, arm, club or bow? Which engine is superior in speed, in accuracy? A hypothetical question, surely; one that might be debated i Erewhon on Midsummer Day, with Walter Travis expatiating kindly to Amos Rusie, Izaak Walton put-tnig in a gnarled, shy word, and the laughter of Robin Hood foaming clear and soft like...
...casts of 18-year-old Harkins flew 400 feet (he was far behind the rest, though for his tools he did better than any). Gehrig "mitt" smiled. and He took a "pegged" it. "pill" in his Farther than the bait, straighter than the drive, as swift as the arrow, flew his ball. On the ninth hole, by a single shot, he beat Diegel, received first prize - a golden wrist watch...