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Author O'Connor writes in a bold, colloquial, summarizing prose, with paragraphs trailing off into dull anticlimaxes ("When he got so he couldn't stand it any longer he'd go into Phoenix and get blind-leaping drunk and spend too much dough and make a fool out of himself"). Inadequate for detailing such complex figures, as O'Rielly, this style works well in accounting for dumb, dangerous Bill Crockett, who develops from a cowboy to a highwayman, but can never understand why his companions grin knowingly or sigh wearily when he talks about...
...happens to be one with which I have no sympathy at all." So does Poet Allen Tate of Tennessee, with a schoolmasterish delight in heckling his audience, conclude the preface to his Selected Poems. These poems, true to their foreword, dish up in lieu of loaves of poetry no dough-balls of life. Strict, acute, circuitous, Poet Tate's verses invite their readers to the unveiling of a literary brain...
...with much the same uproarious levity they loosed recently in New York. Since the French Government was paying their expenses, the fact that few of the hotels at which Legionnaires were at first lodged could claim to be even Fourth Class led to heroic eruptions of wrath. Typical ex-dough-boys and their good wives complained that 20 years after 1917 they were being asked to sleep in hotels some of whose other occupants were obviously daughters of joy. The Government blamed everything on a Paris travel agency which was said to have been paid enough to secure comfortable rooms...
...Armistice. Knowing he is weak both in physique and in character, the War teaches him the warped idea that with a gun in front of him he is as strong as any man. Franchot Tone, looking less like a plucked chicken than usual, gives an excellent portrayal as the dough-boy gangster, and he is adequately backed by the performances of Spencer Tracy and Gladys Goerge...
...King Davis when he thumped for enforcement of the 14th Amendment "so that a hobo can go anywhere in this country without being pinched for being broke." Keynoted he: "We're not spittoon philosophers. . . . We got 815,000 American members now. . . . Half have got jobs and are making dough. A hobo isn't a stemmer; he begs only when he has to. He don't hit the smoke like floaters do, and when he drinks he drinks good liquor. Columbus was a water hobo. He said to Isabella: 'Queeny, old gal, you'll have...