Word: frameworks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...down. Now, poor creature, his ashes are jarred and desecrated a thousand times a day-by mechanisms like that." To scan more closely Puncheon's mound, the two enter the ancient graveyard and stay there reading the epitaphs till twilight falls around them. This is the tenuous framework upon which Walter De La Mare has shaped one more unearthly, sad and lovely book. Turning, as always, from what is to him the Stench, trespass and futility of the present, he breaks bread with phantoms; in these pages the dead stand up and breathe, the living are the ghosts...
...Locked Door. The time-honored thought is again illustrated in this comedy that what is freely given is just as freely thrown away. The framework of society is represented in other familiar patterns here, but it has all been freshened up with a new lick of paint. It is rather surprising to find that so much material that has seen service before is still worthy to be taken from the lumber room...
...endorsement is death to ambition. Adored by H. L. Mencken, Gilbert Seldes and F. P. Awood Broun, he will need all his humor and poise to keep from showing off. Thus far he has succeeded. The delightful thing about this book of short stories is not the amusing burlesque framework, ridiculing those textbooks that offer to teach illiterate soda-clerks to earn $25,000 in the writing business; nor is it in the tales themselves, which are most divertingly couched in "the American language." The insolent humor of the book lies in the fact that between the framework...
...Documents 23 and 25' of the French Yellow Book*, cannot be regarded by us as a basis for a solution of the reparation question. For us in Germany there is no Rhineland question to be solved internationally. The Rhinelanders have the right to decide for themselves, within the framework of the German republican constitution, in what form they want to live within the German Reich...
...copy of Little Old New York and Not So Long Ago, with overtones of Plots and Playwrights and Zoe Akins' The Varying Shore. A series of totally unrelated one-act plays involving incredible incidents in the life of the Minuit family are patched together and stretched across a framework of the Mendelian Law of inheritance, in order to demonstrate that blood will tell and that children are liable to take after their ancestors. The dodge by which historical flavor is achieved is hardly more subtle than having a character say: " Well, so this is 1852," together with an assiduous...