Word: drawned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Looking at the story as a unit, I can commend the author for daring to lot description hold his action back for so long at the beginning. All through the book the very graphic word picture of life in the Long Island smart set is drawn with fascinating dexterity and every situation is handled with unusual finesse. Mr. Towne's evident delight in character, delincation and even in ordinary description tend to minimize the importance of the conventional plot--the old eternal triangle, although when he changes his scene of action to France during the war, omitting...
Inasmuch as a playwright and an actress are not features of every home, no universal implication can be drawn from O'Neill's forceful yoking of two creatures so wildly attuned and so woefully apart. Despite the everyday naturalness of his domestic shambles, he makes out no general case for marriage as a vise and a vice. Plentifully in evidence is his instinctive plumbing of the human heart, and his flair for real talk in copious draughts. But the searchlight of his realism throws up figures that are drab instead of highly colored. Jacob Ben Ami rather luxuriates...
Ziegfeld Follies. Around this time of late years, when business slackens, the Ziegfeld Follies have a new film of talent drawn over them. This is announced with great pomp and circumstance as "a new spring edition of the Ziegfeld Follies." As a matter of fact, there is usually not much that is new in the production, save in the bedazzled eyes of the publicity department. The showgirls, that essential base of the production, remain the same collection of sleeping beauties, glossily torpid with pulchritude...
...most popular courses in the University, an average of 800 students being enrolled annually, including graduates and undergraduates. This number would be considerably greater if laboratory facilities permitted. In addition to this group, there are usually about 50 graduate students engaged in research, many of whom are drawn from among the most capable students in colleges and universities throughout the country...
...moral thus far to be drawn from the Ruskay episode is twofold: 1) the risks of conducting a bucketshop are small in comparison with its possible profits, and 2) if you are going to steal your customers' money be sure and get several millions at least...