Word: gauntly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...recreated out of deep understanding and sympathy for people Gobineau came to know in his wide travels as a diplomat. The Dancing Girl of Shamahka involves the racial pride of Tartars suckled in a dizzy nest among Caucasian crags. The Illustrious Magician: wifely devotion, the burning quest of gaunt dervish and the dilemma of a thorougbred Mussulman. The Love of Kandahar: Romeo and Juliet among the haughty, feudmaking Afghans. They are keen-edged tales, scabbarded in language of bygone elegance, glinting fine irony...
Brave days are still remembered in that house. Along its corridors goes Cosima Wagner, his widow-a grim, gaunt woman with the eyes of a sick eagle and the mouth of a field marshal; up and down she parades, while her petticoat rustles. The whisper of memories, ludicrous, pathetic, stirs to the swish of the old woman's skirt along the empty hall. ... A shaggy little man contorted over the piano, begging his wife to walk up and down the room because he "so loves the rustle of silk. ..." A swollen little man, throned among his friends, shouting...
...Finally, last week, looking healthily gaunt, Dr. Rice turned up, having joined his wife in Lisbon and come home on a Cunarder. He filled in the story...
...mouthing, syncopating professional ecstatic. Sid Strunk, the village policeman, ruminates over his breakfast coffee that it is a good thing they have brought reserves from Chattanooga. About 8 o'clock, dusty wagons, gigs, buggies and small automobiles come jogging in along the country roads. In them are gaunt farmers, their wives in gingham and children in overalls, who crowd toward the court house to get seats for the day's proceedings in the trial of Teacher John Thomas Scopes, alleged violator of the state's antievolution law, bewildered instrument of Science and Faith which have accidentally chosen...
DESIRE UNDER THE ELMS-The bitter loneliness and granite atmosphere of a New England farmhouse blended by Eugene O'Neill into a gaunt tragedy of infidelity...