Word: fleetingness
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One of the major interests in this volume lies in Mr. Train's fleeting sketches of subordinate characters? old Uncle Shiras; Doctor Dominick, "the most valuable man in the world;" Degoutet, outspoken sculptor. Most of them may be recognized as more or less thinly veiled snapshots from real life.* All...
Climbing slowly to the dizzy height of the upper span while the breathless crowd watched in an agony of suspense, the man poised for a fleeting second and then plunged into a mass of correspondence which had accumulated during his absence. An immediate blood transfusion was decided on.
Ministers of the Crown, Senators, Deputies and hosts of uncategoried dignitaries assembled at Cairo Railway Station to bid au revoir, bon voyage and bonne chance to Premier Zaghlul of Egypt, who was leaving for London to have a word with Premier MacDonald about the Sudan (TIME, Feb. 11 et seq...
News is fleeting; Art is immortal. It is a sign of art in journalism when a man can turn out an anthology of news stories that is entertaining. Joseph Anthony has selected 77 stories from 43 U. S. newspapers and four news services. They make an entertaining book?a recommendation...
MIRAGE-Edgar Lee Masters-Boni & Liveright ($2.50). The story of a man who has a "genius for self-laceration." He has loved a woman who is unworthy of him; and though he realizes the utter "waste of the ointment," he still is carried on-the helpless victim of a mirage...