Word: caedmon
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...acid commentary of life as it is lived by the landed gentry south of the Mason Dixon line. Many of her observations in "Dead Lovers Are Faithful Lovers" are shrewd, tart, and occasionally funny. But her quips, weighted as they are beneath a style which apparently goes back to Caedmon and Cynewulf for its model, have a difficult struggle to survive. They decorate but unfortunately do not obliterate the story, which is negligible and deals with a lady with the amorous sensibilities of a Belgian hare and a gentleman, her husband, who man ages to wander through the entire book...
...even tenor of his lecture when a student raised his hand for a question and inadvertently he recognized him. The student asked his question and the professor turned to his notes. "It doesn't say," he admitted. More guarded was the Anglo-Saxon instructor who lost his copy of Caedmon and dismissed the class for a week...
...syndicated wreath on the grave of the supreme liar of history. The dramatic example which clinches the justification of lying further serves to revivify the long-dead Ananias. Were a man chasing a woman with intent to kill and the woman slipped down a side street unobserved. Dr. Caedmon asserts that he would feel no scruples in misdirecting her pursuer...