Word: bypaths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Stein and Cummings appear to go too far in the bypath of experimental writing, Saroyan and Schwartz advance exactly far enough. Granted that the fight against the decay of language must be positive and militant, the leaders of semantics should realize that their experimental writing cannot be absurd or incomprehensible to that sector of society against whom their offensive must be strongest: to the mass...
...Oshkosh, Wis., where he is president of the Kiwanis Club, vice president of the Welfare Board and commodore of the Power Boat Club, had had a happy, busy, exciting week. Of the 9,000 osteopaths in the U. S., over 2,000 were at the convention. Their special bypath of curing disease by actual might & main is, they feel, on the upgrade. And they looked to President Rogers to keep pushing it higher by metaphorical might & main...
...demonstrate that his thesis worked outside the laboratory, Dr. Blotner, 35, who strayed into this physiological bypath while trying to find out why diabetics cannot take insulin by mouth, performed the same experiment with digestive juice extracted by means of a stomach pump from healthy teetotalers. Natural gastric juices digested hard-boiled eggs in a few hours. Addition of alcohol completely arrested digestion...
...Wolf at the Door (original title: La Grange aux Trois Belles). As different as could be from such trail-blazing contemporaries as Louis-Ferdinand Celine (Journey to the End of the Night) and Andre Malraux (Man's Fate), "Robert Francis" (real name: Jean Godmé) follows his romantic bypath in the footsteps of Alain Fournier, Charles Dickens and Hans Christian Andersen. Critics will note a long gap between Author Francis and the men he trails, but readers who are sick & tired of painful realism may well find surcease in The Wolf at the Door...