Word: broadness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...neither is any community of same and sophisticated people ever sufficiently broad minded to allow, without some kind of stone throwing, the importunities of the moral emotionalist. And that is exactly what the leader of the Watch and Ward Society must be, in the light of his words. Nor is he completely damned by so being. Such people may sometime enjoy their Miltonesque heaven where the inhibitions of today become the exhibitions of a celestial tomorrow, and one can play on the harps of a divine reward while less consistent devotees of moral restraint suffer a punishment entirely fitting...
...lira notes, he tore them one by one across the middle, chanting full-throatedly: "She smacks me, she smacks me not!" Vexed at this insult to the national currency?this tactless hint that it was worthless?angry Venetians closed in upon the sailor, pummeled him, tweaked his broad nose, sought vainly to tug at his woolly hair...
...with faint praise. "The High Adventure" will beguile many a world-worn modern--and more than beguile many a boy of fourteen who can take his dog for a grand walk when the book is read, a grand walk with stick a-flourishing and mind a-scurrying down the broad highway of youth and of romance, the highway scorned by authorities on comparative literature, by pedants and by profiteers...
THERE is a broad highway in the life of every man, a romance-strewn avenue of happiness. But seldom does anyone in this age of mechanics and materialism dare to remain long on his particular highway. It is much safer and far more profitable to stand on the curb and sell motor cars or lead pencils. So only in the evenings by the hearth fire when the world of skyscrapers and tabloid newspapers and directors' meetings is obscured by thick curtains and a desire for rest and refreshment does courage come--vicarious courage, of course--and the world worn modern...
...Farnol--and anyone will agree who has read his earlier works--has done much better than this. He has apparently lost the flair and vigor of "The Broad Highway" even of "Peregrine's Progress", and the book suffers from the absence of that vitality. True there is Jessamy Todd, the Methodist-pugilist, and an occasional character of the Farnol tradition--which is the Dickens tradition-but they are wraiths compared with the coves he used to draw. A certain dashing style and a gallant exuberance of spirits is necessary for success in the kind of novel Mr. Farnol enjoys writing...