Word: blurb
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Huge advertisements of Mr. Hearst's Cosmopolitan for May feature an allegedly true story entitled Mercy. "One day a chilling shadow fell," says the blurb. "While Mrs. Wills, with her two small sons, was away on a visit to her parents, the Reverend Robert N. Wills disappeared-and with him the pretty dark-eyed organist!" Then the ad takes on bolder type: "A story of a once prominent minister and his life expiation for a moment's madness." "A story that never got into the newspapers because a whole city held its secret in- violate." Ray Long edits...
...Dorian Abbott--I suspect from the style and tone of his Preface that he is no more than a publisher's blurb--has said officially that the volume did not attempt to be representative. But Mr. Wheelwright declares that seven years of Harvard's poetic output was carefully examined in compiling the volume, in order to assure a just representation of the best work. On the contrary, I believe I represent Harvard opinion when I say that not only do the puerile mouthings of the "Eight More" fail to typify the University; but that poems which do far more justice...
...forth in the "blurb" as the "love story of Kaleema, who gambled with late for a home and happiness. . . full of the gaiety, the pathos, the high tension of lives spent with magnificent gestures...