Word: doned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...definitely accept your challenge, and will certainly meet you, God willing, face to face. . . . The place where this is done is quite immaterial, as it is vindication before the whole nation that you need and not the opportunity to establish an alibi merely before the Calvary congregation...
Though descendants of the Forsytes "may make up fresh adventure for the morrow" (their creator is 61), the Forsyte saga is done. Done because the cycle of old Soames Forsyte's life is complete, and his daughter Fleur, the only descendant that bred true to Forsyte pride and cynical acquisitiveness, has worried her fate to tragic anticlimax. In The White Monkey fate (and Soames) wrenched her from the love of her cousin Jon; in The Silver Spoon fate (and Soames) taught her to snatch what she wanted; in Swan Song again fate (but not Soames) brings her Jon that...
Swan Song picks up familiar threads of earlier episodes in the saga, yet such is the artistry that the final portrait is complete for one unfamiliar with the earlier volumes. Such one, unfortunate, may indeed sense that dramatic action is over and done, but there remains the thrilling finale fire, and there remains a generous supply of Galsworthy's sound philosophy, and his engrossing though rather unsound sociology...
...sufficiently well off to be bored with it and travel. On a voyage between Adelaide and Cape Horn he became fast friends with Joseph Conrad, sailor. Thereupon he took to writing. Besides the volumes of the Forsyte saga, which total with the swan song 2,000 pages, he has done numerous other novels (The Patrician, etc.), stories (Five Tales, etc.), and powerful plays (Strife, Justice, The Skin Game, etc.). Of recent years his hobby has been launching obscure writers. Trader Horn (TIME, June 27, 1927) he heralded from South Africa. Bambi (TIME, July 23) he praised because it had minimized...
...salaries to be paid legitimate actors, nothing was printed. Rumor said performers would be paid flat sums for Vocafilm recording as now is done by Vitaphone, Movietone. Satisfactory terms, sufficient to prevent the stage stars being lured to the movies, surely would be arranged. Few artists, no hams, can wage private salary war against a Shubert-Hammerstein-Brady-Woods combination...