Word: drabbest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Murphys. She started life as a newspaper woman; there is much of her more intimate story, I fancy, in her most ambitious recent work Certain People of Importance. She is unlike her husband and his brilliant brother, the late Frank Norris, for she is incurably romantic. In her drabbest pages of realism- and there are not many of them- she maintains the values of sentiment and emotion. Her husband, however, writes with unusual objectivity. He proceeds on a character-basis he believes true and he is faithful to that truth, which is often a trifle bitter...