Word: decays
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...trough. Only one daughter, Josephine Mylius, withstands the influence, and a battle ensues between the wicked, but clever, and the good, but dumb, which concludes at the end of Part I with the defeat of Josephine. She is unable, in a world wholly full of rottenness and decay, to find her own feet; and Ulrika achieves her most brilliant success in marrying her off against her will to a clever and unscrupulous scoundrel who uses Josephine's millions to achieve a great position in a sham world...
...society which produced the War?and judging by the observed results it is difficult to say that the descriptions have been overdone. It was, as Mr. Wassermann sees it, a society involved in the dry rot of overcivilization, going rapidly down "the great slide" because of a great decay. The translator's title is unnecessarily stressing the obvious when it insists that the book is about money?but more accurately it is about greed?greed for money and for other things as well. Wassermann's world is diseased by greed for sensation, for life, for security...
...most primitive of living races. Civilized men, after thousands of years of a soft, mainly agricultural diet, have a very different kind of dental pattern. In the Dryopithecus, the cusps had already expanded so that they met over the grooves, causing "tunnels," which are the potent causes of tooth decay in modern...
...Decay of an Old German Family...
...Significance. Ostensibly the study of the decay through over-prosperity of a North German merchant family, actually an able and complete study of this, Buddenbrooks is at least two other things: A vividly written picture of the color and way of living of an older and attractive Germany that is now, and that has been for nearly half a century, as dead as Nineveh; and an extraordinarily brilliant depiction of the characters of a group of persons that makes it about as interesting a book as has been offered to the American reading public for a num-ber of years...