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...Dick-like compositions of Mr. Sherwood Anderson for instance." Unlike Sinclair Lewis, she does not bite her country's hand; unlike Edith Wharton (whose example influenced her early work) she casts no nostalgic backward glances toward Europe; unlike Ernest Hemingway, she carries no gnawing fox in her devoted bosom. Her simple, colloquial language obeys the canon of good prose (she rereads Pilgrim's Progress annually), and in that is unremarkable. But she has an individual quality, positive attributes which hide their light under a phrase or even a paragraph, but which shine through her pages like moonlight under...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Amen, Sinner | 8/3/1931 | See Source »

...urgency for meaning. To that point all searchers return. And one is inclined to think that it will be the philosopher or the poet who does provide a meaning. For man has never been satisfied with knowing, but has constantly sought to take his knowledge into the bosom of understanding...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE INSUBSTANTIAL PAGEANT | 5/28/1931 | See Source »

...found many a quip and crank that would wreathe even an alien reader in smiles. For the past three years Alan Patrick Herbert, Punch staff member and tireless contributor, has been regaling readers with the letters of Topsy, exclamatory and energetic post-War type, to her bosom friend. Publishers Doubleday, Doran have collected them in a book which reads more entertainingly than most such collections...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Career Mother* | 3/23/1931 | See Source »

Also "a portly looking matron from whose well upholstered bosom protrudes at frequent intervals the inquiring head of a yellow-billed duck that . . . utters a contemptuous 'quack' and disappears...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Laugh--And Keep Ready! | 3/2/1931 | See Source »

From the dust of my bosom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: Lincolnoclast | 2/16/1931 | See Source »

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