Word: dross
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...canny Chinaman, and by Mr. Sweeney as Harry Spats, who combines the business of a village haberdasher with that of a king of the dope-sellers. It is worth a vialt to "The Scarlet Fox" to see Mr. Sweeney and Miss Chambers turn the vivid dross of a gaudy melodrama into the real theatrical doing...
...nothing of this dross of ours...
...nothing of this dross of ours...
...very good to know that contemporary to oneself, in the midst of all that may seem mediocre and so much but mere dross, there is at least one great spirit, living and suffering, pondering and creating. In Jacob Wassermann there can be seen a great master in the very process of development. Each new book discovers him with a firmer grasp of the technique of his craft, with clearer vision of moral truth. Paradoxically, although it is not as great a book, "Wedlock" is a distinct improvement upon the "World's Illusion...
...Ladder-Re-incarnation refines the world's dross. Popular philosophy in a lavish production...