Word: faraway
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...LIFE GOES ON-Vicki Baum- Doubleday, Doran ($2.50). BLACK MISCHIEF-Evelyn Waugh- Farrar & Rinehart ($2.50). BRAVE NEW WORLD-Aldous Huxley- Doubleday, Doran ($2.50). BRIGHT SKIN-Julia Peterkin-Bobbs-Merrill ($2.50). FARAWAY - J. B. Priestley - Harper ($2-75). FLOWERING WILDERNESS-John Galsworthy-Scribner ($2.50). THE FOUNTAIN-Charles Morgan- Knopf ($2.50). GOD'S ANGRY MAN-Leonard Ehrlich -Simon & Schuster ($2.50). GREENBANKS-Dorothy Whipple-Far-rar & Rinehart ($2.50). INHERITANCE-Phyllis Bentley-Mac-millan ($2.50). INVITATION TO THE WALTZ-Rosamond Lehmann-Holt ($2). THE LADY OF THE BOAT - Lady Murasaki-Houghton Mifflin ($3.50). LIGHT IN AUGUST-William Faulkner -Smith & Haas ($2.50). LIMITS & RENEWALS...
...happy crowd to cheer its going, a trim white ship sped down the Thames and out to sea last July. It was the Southern Cross , VI, a 220-ton, 150-ft. motorship. latest and prettiest of a succession of Church of England vessels carrying the gospel to faraway isles...
...Fall. Cambridge puts on a cloak of the Mediaeval for rainy weather, especially on drenching evenings, and as the Vagabond trudged along, drawing himself bodily farther into the innermost warmth of his copious waterproof, he could not help exploring a trifle the grey depths of his youth. From faraway Massachusetts Avenue the groaning of a homebound orange street car was subdued by the nearer steady trickle of the penetrating downpour. From the obscurity on the right rose the indistinct shape of an old haunt of the Vagabond's, now glistening white, grey, and silver in the flickering glimmer...
...soon as Author Priestley's readers learn that William Dursley's study is "a cozy higgledy-piggledy" and that he plays a high-spirited gambit at chess, they will doubtless be better prepared than Author Priestley's hero for what follows: a treasure hunt, for pitchblende, to Faraway Island via Manhattan, San Francisco, Tahiti. A transoceanic treasure hunt is a new sort of theme for Author Priestley but it is well suited to his fondness for sketching minor characters. Faraway is as full of them as a suburban telephone directory. William Dursley has three traveling companions: a retired naval officer...
...idiom is his knowledge of how to give unreal characters an air of reality by letting them sit down in out-of-the-way places to chat about everyday matters like sex, communism, the cinema, debauchery, patriotism, honesty. The ramblings of Author Priestley's invention are limitless. They make Faraway what one of Author Priestley's seafaring men might call a "scrumdoolious" chronicle, even more higgledy-piggledy than the study which is still waiting for William Dursley after 450 pages of cozy adventuring...