Word: cheerier
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...write rings round half a dozen of our ten best novelists." His first book, God Head, had tremendous physical force. His second, Listen Moon!, was young-animal, lyrical, pensive. Now he has opened a squamous dungeon of the mind and explored it with the erudite perversity of a cheerier, juicier Poe. Like all horror stories it is belittled by its own theatricality yet it remains an amazingly worded orgy of the more unspeakable human propensities...
Habitual travelers on the Broadway Limited, "crack" Pennsylvania R. R. train between Chicago and Manhattan, nodded cheerily to Steward Lewis Davis when they entered the dining-car last week. Later they felt even cheerier when Steward Lewis Davis, dean of the Broadway Limited's dining-car staff, brought them a little surprise-a slice from the train's 25th anniversary cake. For last week, which marked the 25th year of operation of the New York Central's Twentieth Century, marked also the quarter century for the Broadway Limited. New York Central officials made an event of their...
...story of Kate Green and her son Joe and all their relatives and neighbors in Westlake, New England, is another story of the tragically commonplace and, its eternal power of keeping on. Sister Anne is a little cheerier than Brother Dillwyn. She lets at least one character, life-loving Evelyn, young Joe's wife, escape back to New York and Paris whence she came. She even lets her have Hope, her daughter (the small hope of Westlake), and puts all the agony on Joe's shoulders, which broaden by bearing it alone. But Kate, from...
...spectre of Harvard impotence in sport is laid. The hockey team has delivered the first blow to the bogey of Crimson disaster. The autumnal gloom, deepened by defeats which were foreseen and could not be averted, is dispelled in a cheerier season. The pride of Yale has skated to a tumble...