Word: brutalities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Author Conner's novel, without attempting to give a clear picture of what the various troublemakers were after, makes it quite clear that the trouble itself was desperate, often hellish. Shake Hands with the Devil reads like crude melodrama but Author Conner swears his tale is founded on brutal fact, has needed no embellishment...
...triumph over the death of her enemy, would have been a really great moment if it had been properly led up to. Even the last scene would have been no such triumph of unverisimilitude if Davis had made General Rand more of a Southern gentleman and less a brutal hospital interne. As to the motivation of Jezebel herself, it seems fantastic. Such a woman, if her lover married another one, would be more tempted to win him back than to murder him. Even if she decided on homicide instead of adultery would a Southern gentleman...
...regiments, one known as "The Fathers." Both were family affairs: one was officered mainly by the plodding Chappells, the other by their livelier cousins, the St. Quentyns. Alastair Chappell, the last of his line, was a little too sensitive for his own comfort. When he rebelled against the more brutal traditions of the regiment it looked as if he would never make a soldier. Alastair made an almost unforgivable blunder when he turned down the chance of marrying his colonel's daughter and fell in love with his cousin, Katherine St. Quentyn. Worse, he took advantage of Katherine...
...candid than Dreiser but a more artful writer, Author Fisher intends his four-decker novel to be an honest book. Because he has had a hard, unhappy life and because he writes only of what he knows, Vardis Fisher's books are not cheerful reading, have been called brutal, ruthless. Strong stomachs will find them tough meat but untainted. In Tragic Life brought Vridar Hunter through his unhappy childhood and terrified adolescence in the Idaho hills. Passions Spin the Plot finds him. a gangling youth of 19, on his way to Wasatch College in Salt Lake City. Though college...
...cynical sculs could have foreseen that Dean Mendell would make the statement which he did, all unafraid and all complacent, to the effect that Yale wanted nothing so much as to foster a spirit of cooperation between students and neighbours, albeit the neighbours were strike-breakers of the most brutal and witless kind...