Word: cline
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...page, leapt into bed and pulled the blankets up around his ears, to quiver and quake the rest of the night. "Dracula" and "She" belonged to that school and fulfilled its requirements patly. Probably the fact of our early attachment to those volumes accounts for our disappointment in Mr. Cline's latest novel. "The Dark Chamber...
...potentialities for wholesale excitment which Cline offers are endless--lycanthropy, vampirism, astrology, and an isolated manor on the Hudson. All the paraphernalia are there, and it is irritating, having settled oneself for an evening of keeping hair and scalp connected, to have it descend into the customary muck of sex-repressions and eroticism. Mr. Cline commences by peopling his hall of horrors with supernatural terrors, and ends with a heavy-handed accent on the sexual...
Much has been said and written about what is wrong with the modern novel, but "The Dark Chamber" exhibits two of its greatest defects. The irrepressible desire to wallow in the morbidities of sex is one. The other is the continual effort to attain a "precious" style. Cline's efforts run to the use of esoteric words and a "lyric" prose...
...summary follows: HARVARD M. I. T. Salmon, Henry, g. g., Wyman Stollmeyer, l. f. b. r. f. b., Hawkins Clark, Bodde, r. f. b. l. f. b., Riehl Carr, Ryan, l. h. b. r. h. b., Cooper Rudd, Blackburn, c. h. b. c. h. b., Cline Barnes, Booth, r. h. b. l. h. b., Fahey Kerness, c. c., Mong Driggs, l. o. f. r. o. f., Baroudi Vogel, l. i. f. r. i. f., Ventura Haskell, r. o. f. l. o. f., Sparre Danielian, Keefe, Langdon, r. i. f. l. i. f., Saco...
HARVARD M.I.T. Henry, g. g. Wyman Stollmeyer, l.f.b r.f.b., Hawkins Clark, r.f.b l.f.b. Richl Booth, l.h.b. r.h.b., Cooper Kerness, c.h.b. c.h.b., Cline Rudd, r.h.b. l.h.b., Fahey Vogel, c. c., Mong Driggs, l.o.f. r.o.f., Baroudi Langdon, l.i.f. r.i.f., Ventura Baskell, r.o.f. l.o.f., Sparre Barnes, r.i.f l.i.f., Sacco...