Word: furr
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...schools that with "The Making of Americans". Gertrude Stein had set out boldly and forever to the promised land where words have other more intimate values; yet in the short stories written in her pre-war days in Paris she must certainly have dispatched this facile critical theory. Miss Furr and Miss Skeene might have been written, for its directness and economy, by the Gertrude Stein of Radcliffe and William James. Upon this many of the apologists of her poetry and more characteristic prose have fastened; "But Gertrude Stein can write the most delicate conventional prose; she is not always...