Word: briefer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...glimmer of gayety; blind gray headland and arid mountain, and trailing from his shoulders the infinite ocean. Poet Jeffers likes lengthy poems in which his long-limbed lines have room to move, but he sometimes cramps himself into briefer limits. In his latest collection he includes 24 short poems, three long ones...
Sherwood Anderson never wrote a good novel, but he has written some first-rate short stories. His bumbling, fumbling, earnest-zany style wanders all over the place when it comes to telling a long narrative: confined to briefer limits it is often a powerful plodder. Though none of the 16 stories in Death in the Woods is the equal of his justly famed "I'm a Fool," three of them are well up to Anderson standard; one ("The Fight") is not only good but (what is even rarer for Author Anderson) funny...
Screen comedians reach a crisis when they graduate from two-reel comedies to six-reel feature films. Funnymen Laurel & Hardy emerge from the crisis as funny as ever but no funnier. Their incapacities, hilarious in earlier and briefer studies, seem protracted in Pardon Us: they have added nothing to their formula except vulgarity. Funny shots: Laurel & Hardy making friends with the bloodhounds which have been sent to trail them; sing ing "Good morning, dear teacher," in the prison school; going to bed in the same cot so awkwardly that they break...
...hand, for which they both struggled, and into which he tumbled and was nearly drowned." Thus Mrs. Edith Gittings Reid, wife of Harry Fielding Reid, Johns Hopkins professor of dynamic geology & geography, begins The Great Physician: A Life of Sir William Osler, published last fortnight.- Her book is briefer (293 pp.) than Harvey Williams Cushing's two-volume year-by-year life (1,413 pp.). Yet she gives a full picture of "the greatest physician in history." She quotes Dr. William Henry Welch, who brought Osler to help found Johns Hopkins Medical School in 1889, on Osler...
...Briefer Notes...