Word: dialectical
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tries to tell as Conrad or Maugham would. Those selected in this book - 24 stories written over a span of some 30 years - remain as readable as they were salable in the '20s, when they were hot stuff in Harper's and the Atlantic Monthly. Gullah dialect, a Mohammedan marriage ceremony, the way a schooner's boom may swing when she luffs - such varied "local color" is thickly applied...
Danny sang it for the first time one night in February 1940, in La Martinique, a Manhattan basement nightclub. He was an immediate hit, not only because he was funny singing in Russian dialect, but also because he puckishly suggested that he, too, could be a tree, a sled, or anything his comic imagination wanted...
Some of the situations are tried, true and a little tired. But the Rumanian siren, speaking sonorously in a participial dialect of her own, is a fresh creation; and Hume Cronyn's Freddie Potts might be something straight out of the early Booth Tarkington. Slim Robert Walker is wholly likable as the husband. June Allyson is a model little bride, especially when she sidles up to her man with an icebox tray in her hand and says with a happy sigh, "Our first ice cubes...
They have been around plenty. Almost all of them have been abroad, and 50% have lived in foreign countries all over the world. As a result, better than half of them speak foreign languages, and one can get along in Malay dialect...
Lillian also knew some of the less Freudian folk in Willowspring-honest fellows who reached halting conclusions about politics and life. They said, in what Novelist Howard believes to be Pennsylvania dialect: "Maybe this here givern-givern-givernment of the United States was found-foundered by the people fer the people...