Word: details
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fences. . . .' Shamed, his men swashbuckle down to their jobs, fight their way over the mountain passes to the valley where the fabulous island-city of Montezuma "lay on the lake like sleeping gulls." Here they lead an idyllic life, described by Poet MacLeish in beautiful detail. But their attempt to make their security more secure, by holding Montezuma hostage, leads to their ruin. When Cortes goes back to Cempoala, to fight off some Spaniards sent after him by Governor Velasquez, Alvarado, left in charge at Mexico City, gets into trouble with the natives. When Cortes returns, Montezuma is slain...
Professor Reck took the Oldoway man home to Berlin where he examined the find in detail. Oldoway stood 5 ft. 10½ in. He had long legs and a long narrow head. His nose was big, his upper lip long, his jaw and chin massive. He looked like many a Hamite still to be seen in Northeastern Africa. To Professor Reck, Oldoway's lower teeth seemed filed to points, a fashion current among certain living African tribes...
...Arabia, who gives the second, concluding Magnolia Street party, which brings Jews and gentiles together again. By this time, in spite of Author Golding's sincere and humane labors, the reader is likely to be wishing both Jews and gentiles either dead or living without such tedious detail...
...Orinoco River (TIME, Aug. 10). But for a long time he had wanted to speak out about men, institutions and conditions in Latin America which have vexed him. His book turned from a travelog into a philippic. Lest readers doubt his competence to criticize he took care to detail that he has spent but 30 months of the past 31 years outside of South America. For 25 years he was physician & surgeon to mines, railways, sugar and rubber estates in various countries. During vacations he explored. For the past rive years exploring has been his profession. Not strangely, explorers...
...years they had stayed at Mrs. Hugget's lodging-house at Bognor on the sea. Though Mrs. Hugget's place, since the death of her husband, showed more shabbiness than gentility, the Stevenses were faithful once again. With meticulous detail Author Sherriff recounts their departure from London, the thrilling railway journey, their stay in Bognor. Nothing happens except that for two weeks they all breathe free. Their mutual affection, having survived the cooping of their poor city life, turns outward to the world at large. Mr. Stevens meets old cronies at the pub; Dick has an inspiration...