Word: beneath
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...falcon, is on hand when Florence Churchill, efficient dilettante, comes to drag her cousins off to school in England. Anticipating an interesting seduction, Dodd soon finds himself a successful, well-kept celebrity in England, married to Florence. Not till then does he wake up to Tessa Sanger. Beneath her timely scorn, fearless innocence and sharp wit, her primitive, leaky little heart has been constantly his. All her intensity goes into her acquired conception of honor when he proposes that they run away. She refuses. But Florence cracks under the strain, scouring the slate with curses. Tessa goes with Dodd...
...most quick-witted of advertising advisers. Beside a delicate spider-scrabble of Japanese characters stood Musa-Shiya himself, fretted forth in blackest ink with his bare toes tweaking at each other through their sandal-thongs, his best kimono hanging in polite folds and his two hands clasped solicitously beneath an amiable squint-eyed grin. MUSA-SHIYA the SHIRTMAKER (Also kimono make & Dry good sell) obviously aimed to please. "This time," said his message, "I was importent onnounuce for all lady LADY NECKTIE CREEP DE CHINE "All color and other one fancy patten." If Musa-Shiya did not, like Edward...
...enters objection, threatens exposure; Babe submits; Carrie, principle gained, withdraws objection. One scene stages the home-watched coffin of Father Ned, for realistic, mainly risible character study. Although the construction is loose-jointed, this is rather good old-time melodrama. The dialogue has genuine folk-flavor. Miss Eames, fire beneath ice, reminded one critic of Queen Elizabeth in preposterous court theatricals. Alfred Lunt (Babe) shared the compliments; Margalo Gillmore pleased as a hot-lipped kitchen baggage...
Kate Nesbitt, like a hard wall beneath gracious ivies, considers her best-loved daughter as good as dead. Sister Mabel's agate eyes gleam with righteousness and curiosity. Sister Janet is a golden haired prig, until love storms her own maiden ramparts...
...that imitations have grown more commendable ever since. Another chapter solves problems for young-marrieds, with a five-year program for feathering the nest. All that is (see adjectives above) in chintzes and cretonnes, flounces and hangings, locks and latches, cupboards and clapboards, rugs and roofs, has passed beneath the avid eye of Decoratrix Seal. She has torn down old houses besides building new ones and adapting odd ones. She has lived thoughtfully enough to know that "simplicity" must never mean discomfort. Aesthetically the book parallels the current literary renaissance of early America. If widely read, it should speed...