Word: brooding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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After one day's respite following the restful days of a New York vacation the Vagabond furtively returns to his former haunts, the oppressive shadow of approaching divisionals hard upon him. All honor be to those hardy souls who braved the tormenting mirage of vacation to brood over notes, and outlines beneath the gaze of the everpresent Goddess...
...after the armistice, Raymond Hatton returns to America leaving his French sweetheart in charge of Wallace Beery. An edict that all young women marry immediately, or something similar, complicates things and Beery appropriates the woman in the case. Hatton come back and intrigue, duels and the hatching of a brood of ducks by Beery keeps the comedy of this fast team from losing impetus. See it if the jaded mind needs a stimulant. It is served on "Blue Plate," the stage attraction, which makes it more appetizing...
...Shrig, detective, has made sure that Fiddling Jackie, not Sir Marmaduke, murdered the disagreeable Squire Brandish; after Mrs. Marmaduke has died; after Author Farnol has once more made readers, of whom there will be many, pant with romantic excitement no less hard than did less hardy readers at The Brood Highway...
...recorded that a specialist at one of the great Army hospitals once told Queen Mary of a man whose face was entirely disfigured, and who in consequence had brooded until he was almost mad. If Her Majesty would sit and talk with the wounded man, concealing her repugnance, perhaps he would believe his disfigurement bearable, would cease to brood into madness...
...writing of the book it may be said that May Sinclair handles her story well, although at times the feeling is inevitable that six brain children are too large a brood for any author to handle. The plot usually well-sustained, at points of maximum action strays, wobbles, stumbles. Of the characters, categorical differentiations are employed to help the reader tell one from the other, but the net effect is of a houseful of wooden Indians worked by wires. Not since Anne Severn and the Fieldings (1922) has May Sinclair been herself...