Word: better
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Said Sir Basil Zaharoff: "This decides me. For a long time I have been questioning myself whether to leave the diary in existence or not. But I'd better not leave it, I see." In Paris, a fire was built and on the fire were placed the first pages of the diary. Like the fires that smoulder in the autumn along country roads, this fire burned slowly and with an acrid smoke as if there had been some bitter taste in the old crisp leaves that it was compelled to chew. For two days the secrets that had been...
...Queen Marie approached her old and loyal friend, she asked in French: "Do you feel better...
...when he first met the stranger face to face. Delirious with fever, Dundee tossed on his bed. They thought that Dundee might die. Then the stranger appeared and spoke to the lad: "Things are not very certain with you and if you want to take my advice, you had better hold fast to the bed. If you are not very careful, Dundee, it will slip away from under you." So Dundee held fast to the bed and soon was well...
...football playing, fighting, friendships, difficulties, he is no longer so engrossing, no longer individual. Here and there Author Walpole makes an opportunity to show his accustomed insight; always he manages with complete mastery a theme that many an inferior novelist has fumbled. But though his book is better than the run of schoolboy novels, it never quite loses the taint of sugary superficiality that has lingered in all such works since Eric, or Little by Little...
...devoted to a mildly interesting, not very convincing attempt to prove this theory. One by one Joseph Herges-heimer, Gertrude Atherton, et al., are pointed at with the finger of scorn and it is all pretty terrible-if true. Upton Sinclair has long enjoyed the privilege of being far better known than any of his books...