Word: clarissa
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...woman newspaper correspondent's story of that "quaint old Down East fishing village, full of quaint old interesting characters and quaint old interesting furniture and fashionable summer people," sends the Masseys with their daughters, Enid and Clarissa, to Mary's Neck. Their first mistake is to arrive in April, with the snow still flying. The interval before the arrival of the summer colonists they fill in with hiring native help, buying and remodeling their cottage, antiquing, motorboating...
When "they" arrive the Masseys have some trouble breaking the social ice. But Enid and Clarissa soon attract the younger set. and the life of the colony follows them. Enid and Eddie Bullfinch, two of the most comic portraits from Connoisseur Tarkington's album, make life almost intolerable but all the more enjoyable throughout the summer. After several wrong guesses as to whether the Bullfinches, Allstovers or Timberlakes are the people to know, the Masseys find they are all about the same, all worth knowing, if you like to chuckle. The colony gets some chuckles out of the Masseys...
...love story of John Bray and Clarissa is no more than the thread which goes into the weaving of an American tapestry, a tapestry based on a firm mat of fact gleaned and connected by profound scholarly effort. The entire book would prove of valuable assistance to students of American history and expansion. In fact, it may well be taken as a jovial and sympathetic lecture on the social and intellectual history of the United States during the pre-War of 1812 period. At first the frequent use of obsolete words in conversation leads to a measure of resentment...
...paid to All Ye People. Though living in the time of the fulfillment, the reader feels not triteness in the prophecy he has seen realized. He finishes the book with a sense of anticipation and exultation, exultation skin to that of John Bray as he rides hard to join Clarissa on the final Westward road. And 'all ye people' clap their hands...
...because commemorative stamps carry the picture of one Marie Bard, artist's model, instead of Clarissa Harlowe (Clara) Barton's, cantankerous Red Cross foundress...