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Paul Sharon, the character about whom the novel is built, is completely human; his healthy vigor, his disgust at shani and hypoerisy, his feeling for beauty, and his strong passion are contested against an inability to come to any decision, much as strength and weakness are opposed in most people. He is an ingenious, attractive lad whose life has been ruined by family heritage, an abnormal childhood, and his chronic incapacity to cope with the situations he comes up against, "Riverhead" deals with the metamorphosis of this last characteristic...
...Soon a whole set of theatrical tintypes begin to appear: the rake who has promised to disdain his innocent little bride until his mistress gives him permission, a sexy mother-in-law, an officious low comedy father-in-law. To the very evident amusement of its spectators and the disgust of Manhattan critics, the show's dull bawdry continues until innocence melts impatiently into voluptuousness, takes restrained venery by storm...
...almost unheard of in the Grand American. When Arthur E. Sheffield, railway postal clerk of Dixon. Ill., firing from 21 yd., broke 98 out of 100 last week he felt fairly confident about it. An experienced trapshooter but hitherto unfamed, he started shooting in 1912, gave it up in disgust at his inefficiency in 1917, started to shoot again four years ago. Last year he won his first big tournament, the Illinois State Handicap. Last week, after waiting for several other shooters who knew his posted score to crack when they had a chance...
...World's Woman's Christian Temperance Union as "crafty old Mrs. Ella Boole." Mrs. Boole is respected and admired by thousands for her statesmanlike leadership and wholehearted devotion to a great cause and the use of such disrespectful terms will only merit the contempt and disgust of decent people for the one who uses...
...forgot his differences at the time of the Shanghai incident to help Chiang oppose Japan. Marshal Chiang has lost much face by his continued failure to consolidate and pacify central China (his own territory) and his failure to provide more determined resistance to Japan. Wang Ching-wei resigned in disgust having first sent a note protesting the passive military policy in the north of "Young Chang" Hsueh-liang, ruler of Peiping...