Word: crimes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...abstract of Howells' 40 works of fiction shows that he never wrote of adultery or seduction and only once each of divorce and crime. Politics, religion, science, mechanics, bodily exploits or collisions were also eschewed. The themes were love, "treated with that vividness in innocence and ardor in purity which seem, in literature and life, to be the reward for abstinence from its distempers"; travel, literature and art, ethics, metaphysics (shyly), "the mysticism of psychology" and social problems...
...change his style of writing, was a difficult one to make. That he has been successful is simply a proof of a determination to succeed which has followed him through life. Having written many books in spare hours, having become known as a writer of stories of law, lawyers, crime, its detection and of humor, he found himself at middle age determined to break with his habits of life and to become a sort of American Galsworthy. He wrote, therefore, His Children's Children,* which caught critical and public fancy. He has followed it with several other books, among...
...sheetlets* of Manhattan. Compactly laid out, swathed in photographs, crowded with headlines, cluttered with "features", tabloid newspapers compress the national and international news the day with the local and incidental, expanding the latter into longer stories whenever it possesses sufficiently sensational details. The Vanderbilt papers, however, do not exploit crime am scandal as do their Manhattan prototypes. Their two most visible bents arc educational (stories of science and invention, popularly told, and local school notes) and domestic stories (of family-life, "happy reunion" pictures, brides and grooms...
...rarely or never employed; and those accused of felonies can be brought to trial on information †by a prosecuting attorney (as in Minnesota) or (as in Michigan) by an indictment returned by a single judge who, by a recent Michigan law is empowered to investigate an alleged crime with the authority of a grand jury...
...French law grants a divorce on the grounds of adultery, cruelty and conviction for an infamous crime punishable by imprisonment. (The inclusion of cruelty as a ground for divorce is an echo of Napoleon's troubles with Josephine.) The interpretation by the French courts of what constitutes cruelty is what has opened wide the door to marital freedom. It includes insults such as the failure to resume or continue marital relations...