Word: cruder
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...remaining stories are simpler and more sincere. Despite rather cruder workmanship, Mr. Blaine produces an effective climax with a very timely setting. "The Story of Old Panama" is highly colored, remote, and romantic...
...naturally to Mr. Mariett's story of undergraduate life which bears that virtue for its title--a happy, humorous, altogether real story of a grind and the way he got over it--the simplest, truest story of college life in the reviewer's memory. The other stories are cruder in execution, though less sincere in purpose, be their background the gold fields of the Yukon as depicted by Mr. Hoffman; the civilized though somewhat vague habitations of an Irene, serially being educated by Mr. Moderwell; or the dusky hillside of a pair of married lovers left in a state...