Word: condimented
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Dates: during 1922-1922
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...some of it is excellent. The most interesting tendency in the number as a whole is the subordination of narrative. Until a short time ago, all college papers used to serve a regular repast of warmed over O. Henry, composed, at first largely, and at last entirely, of the condiment of Surprise. It is pleasant to remark that the influence of this absurd literary mountebank has finally waned, if not vanished. The two stories in the present Advocate, which I take as typical, are transitional; the old short-story formula is gone; the new is still in the making. Both...