Word: compassionate
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Author Johnston shows no trace of youthfulness in the grim story she tells with relentless force, compassion, and restraint. She is 18.
In contrasting the three universities instinct impels one to speak of Harvard first. Harvard men may be said to represent an ideal which the rest of the country looks forward to achieving after several centuries of intensive culture. The Harvard man is a sort of vidette of American civilization. Far...
Frances N. Newman (authoress of The Hard-Boiled Virgin*) pleaded for mercy for a Negro named Henry Ford who robbed her apartment in Atlanta, Ga. Said she: "Please let him go, judge. He only got 17 cents in my apartment." Judge Virlyn B. Moore listened with compassion, then sen- tenced...
SHOULD true love or the sense of duty evoked through compassion and pity determine the all too-important decision in one's life, that of marriage? This is the question upon which the theme of "Conflict" is based, and in it Mrs. Prouty has evolved a psychological problem, the solution...
Felix Nawn, conscientious, silent, inarticulate, is reminiscent of Gene Stratton Porter's Jaspar in "The White Flag." He is a sincere man, but haplessly imbued with a grain of deceit which ultimately leads him to his grave. "Poor, kind, bungling, ineffectual Felix"! He is indispensable, for had he not had...