Word: badness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...been written on the subject- one, by Thomas Burke, appeared in the O'Brien anthology of Britsh Short Stories for 1923; the other, by one Frances Hammond (I think) in Snappy Stories in August, 1923. The latter was a genuinely fine piece of literature, and it is too bad that its subject matter condemned it to a magazine much looked down upon. It's title was "The Souvenir." In The Mill on the Floss George Eliot says: "I speak to those who have felt the delicious resistance of hair to shears," or words to that effect. I wonder...
...every $100 which his patient was to owe him. When the full bill was paid to the financing corporation the doctor would get $51.37 more, a total of $86.37 for each $100 of service. The corporation would keep $13.63 for its expenses and for a fund to pay off bad debts...
...unable to pay his cast and creditors. When his 'buffoons and minstrels have taken their dull turns, the audience is inclined to agree with him. Apart from a spry group of Russel Markert dancers and a burlesque called the Russian Chloral Society, the events are reminiscent of a bad afternoon at Keith's. Jimmy Carr's expert dance band is in the pit, but unfortunately it renders one of those painful "collegiate" satire songs which is the revenge of saxophone players who could not get into college...
...Actress O'Neill's dismay, Chief Constable Wensley had announced his resignation just before her loss was discovered. The coincidence suggested a new plot to detective-story authors, but to her it just seemed jolly bad luck. Able though his assistants and successors might be, it would have been a lark to have one's jewels found, one's would-be poisoner apprehended, by the greatest Sherlock of them...
...Little Johnny Bull! What a naughty little pup To eat the paper profits up. Contributor Funk was obviously a man of substance, conscious of the stockmarket. His subsequent contributions would have revealed him, to any between-lines-reader, as: a fatalist; a hedonist conscious of women, tobacco, liquor; a bad golfer; a married man whose thoughts sometimes stray afield; a middle-aged married man whose thoughts always return homeward. Wilfred J. Funk dutifully summed himself up, in fact, in his opus for May 9 entitled "Symptoms," as follows: SYMPTOMS I am a sort of a cynical cuss, Mellow and mildly...