Word: fainted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...play. Miss Gale is more romantic than realistic. She likes to look at the other side of the picture, even though it may be turned to the wall. There is no tragedy here except the unconscious tragedy of the Crumbs. The beauty of Leda and Barnaby, and the "faint perfume" of their love, rises above all the reek and crassness of the Crumb materialism. If anything, Miss Gale errs on the side of the sentimental. She does not allow the Crumbs the inevitable victory of the harsh over the delicate...
...Critics. Dr. Henry Seidel Canby, of The Literary Review, calls Faint Perfume " one of the interesting books in the history of American fiction." Heywood Broun remarks in The New York World: "We do not know any modern novelist who has achieved such admirable compression." Other commentators have protested at the "happy ending." But the book has generally been received as a masterpiece of its kind and as in most respects greatly superior to tne much-praised Miss Lulu Bett...
...Hitchcock-not too proud to be a journalist. (P. 21.) Rear-Admiral Weeks. (P. 7.) Brainless women-who make the best wives. (P. 19.) An average speed of 250 miles an hour-in a blinding sandstorm. (P. 27.) Victor Hindmarch-when his non-stop dancing partner retired a-faint, he continued with a woman spectator. (P. 31.) "Laddie"; Sanford - American sportsman. (P. 28.) A Supreme Court potent enough to do "ten times as much work as it did in the days of Marshall." (P. 4.) The Oxford crew and the Oxford track team-and Hume, Brown, Mellen and Kane...
...messenger, splattered with mud and faint with fatigue, arrived in Moab today with the news that the Piutes had surrounded the town of Blanding. All communication with the outside world had been cut off, so this man had volunteered to ride through the lines and carry the bad news to Moab. Immediately the street began to fill with prairie-schooners, and stern-faced men whose eyes were full of the loneliness of the plains. Each man had a square gray beard, and an old musket under an arm which was wiry and tanned by years of sun and rain. Wagon...
...Cephei, a variable star of the so-called cluster type, has long been known to astronomers, but its velocity was never measured until recently. It is far too faint to be seen with the naked eye, being of the tenth magnitude. It is in the constellation Cepheus, and is 3800 light years distant from the earth, which means that the light from it which astronomers now see through their telescopes started on its journey to the earth in the time of the shepherd kings of Egypt, nearly nineteen hundred years before Christ. That distance is only a small fraction...