Word: brightly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Significance. In this novel, Mr. Hergesheimer does not borrow from a century but presents it. He has achieved a book that has the tex ture of velvet and the rigor of bright iron. His method of dating the narrative with politics and giving history's skeleton,' flesh and wit in the lives of his characters is, though a difficult artifice, perfectly persuasive. To say that we have advanced in our system of government since Revolutionary times is to say that Jefferson was right and Richard Bale was wrong. It is an opinion generally accepted. Mr. Hergeheimer, indeed, holds...
...Fine Arts. Of Quaker descent, his preoccupation has always been with beautiful surfaces, in landscapes, women, old furniture, centuries. A symposium of critics last year voted him America's most important novelist. His works include Mountain Blood, Three Black Pennys, Java Head, The Happy End, Cytherea, The Bright Shawl...
...Next morning, bright and early, so the story goes, the idle were gratified by a glimpse of princely shirt sleeves, a hot, dirty, princely face. The Praga Wagger* was doing his own packing...
...political bombast and fustian may chill the somewhat delicate bloom of trade and industrial sentiment. Indeed the stock market seems to reflect such an occurrence. Yet the country has survived many major political campaigns, and probably will manage to this year, too. Meanwhile prospects for better business are extraordinarily bright and pronounced, while current business for the most part is extraordinarily dull and unsatisfactory...
...PARAMOR - Louis Joseph Vance- Dutton ($2.00). Turning his back on desert islands and the criminal underworld, Mr. Vance ventures into the more polite, if less exciting, realm of Society. The new atmosphere makes Mr. Vance a bit giddy. He teeters on his mental tiptoes, nervously juggling bright phrases, while he tells the simple tale of Nelly Wayne and her rather stupid husband, Pendleton. Nelly is a member of the "irritable race" -a writer. When Jill Wetherell, aging nymph, snares Pendleton in one of his "misunderstood" moments, Nelly vengefully becomes Mrs. Paramor. Ultimately, both Nelly and Pendleton revert to type...