Word: carefully
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Post Office officials estimated that about 50,000 parcel post packages, 500,000 pieces of first class mail were detained by the shortage of funds. The Aquitania scheduled to sail on July 1, and the Leviathan on July 4 were expected to take care of the accumulation...
...Story* Sequels seem to be out of favor with most prominent American authors - heaven knows why! Hergesheimer, Lewis, Gather, Wharton, Fitzgerald, Dos Passes, et cetera - not one of them seems to care about carrying his or her characters through more than a single volume. Except for James Branch Cabell with his elaborate lineage of Lichfield, the pleasant custom of introducing a favorite character from one book into another seems for the present to have fallen into desuetude among us, at least among the more pretentious of our writers. Which makes it all the more pleasant to come across a volume...
...Model Young Man ? He Dresses and Writes With Care...
...Stewart was born in Ohio and is fond of his mother. That is why he is an authority on etiquette. He has that faculty of telling you exactly where your trousers should be creased. He dresses with as much care as Hugh Walpole; but by a regular adherence to the rules of the daily dozen, his weight has remained that of a young man of grace and poise...
...takes his work seriously, and he writes and rewrites his humorous paragraphs with deliberation and care. Quite a model young man, then, whose one vice seems to be an overwhelming desire to be an author of large and serious reputation. He wishes to be anything but funny, and yet he is certainly funny. Just what can be done about it, I don't quite know...