Word: dorinda
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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BLACK BUTTERFLIES-Elizabeth Jordan-Century ($2.00). When Dorinda Maxwell's father died, she wanted the freedom that he had refused her. At first she thought she had found it in the unconventionality of some drunken esthetes who called themselves the Black Butterflies. Later, when she fell in love with a model young man, she knew she had really got what she wanted. The story of a war of independence is marred by the inability of Author Jordan to raise a real issue between the behavior of eccentric people and that of normal ones. While the normal ones...
...Ferry The Story. "Broom sedge," old Matthew Fairlamb used to say, "ain't jest wild stuff. It's a kind of fate." Opposed only by ignorance and indigence, it crowded Virginia farmlands, Pedlar's Mill in particular, into hopelessness. Men either subsided into ruts-like Dorinda Oakley's plodding father and slaving mother; or their lives straggled, grew weedy -like Dr. Graylock with his whiskey, yellow wench and brood of pickaninnies at dilapidated Five Oaks. Walking early and late to work at the store in Pedlar's Mill, Dorinda wore a flame-colored shawl, bright...