Word: explaining
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...back after a hard struggle bravely fought and splendidly won. . . . No more sincere thanks went up to God for your recovery than from French hearts. France has lost many sons and therefore she clings much more to her friends. . . . You have many times explained France to America, you will have once more to explain America to France. She will believe you, for, to use an American expression, she knows that Myron Herrick is the man 'who delivers the goods...
Statesman Claudel thus made clear that Ambassador Herrick would have to explain to France why U. S. Secretary of State Frank Billings Kellogg has rejected the Franco-U. S. peace pact which Mr. Herrick himself brought back from France before he collapsed in health (TIME, July 4). In a stirring plea for this pact Poet-Statesman Claudel cried: "Casual thinking people, speaking of the proposal, have said: 'It is nothing but words. . . . Can you stop war with paper?' . . . Well, words are great things. It is written: 'In the beginning was the Word. . . . I remember, too, some general...
...explain Hardy's position in English letters, it is necessary to push the story back to the middle of the 19th century, when Thackeray was writing his voluminously graceful fictions, when Gladstone was hobbling inelegantly through London, when Queen Victoria was swishing around her palace in long dresses. Hardy was then a small boy who took special pleasure in walking through Wessex fields, dawdling to talk with old men as they drove their cattle along the roads. The moors stretched out around the village of Upper Hampton where he lived; at night the wind blew a mist across them...
...other characterizations. They are all a little overdone, and being too cut and dried, they do not wear well. The style contributes to this end, for in her obvious desire to be forceful, Fannie Hurst is led into grotesqueries, of which one example should suffice, though it does not explain. When the author refers to the Thanksgiving turkey as a "Mucilaginous miscellany of stuffed gobbler" one feels slightly out of one's depth. Which is about the way one feels about the whole book...
...recent biographers of Galahad and of Napoleon collaborated on a title for this book, they would undoubtedly have chosen: "Talleyrand and his Girl Friends: or Too Much of his Private Life to Explain his Reputation." In which case, this review need have been written...