Word: gnaw
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Skin for Skin?Llewellyn Powys ?Harcourt, Brace ($2.00). The three literary brothers Powys all gnaw without cease at the mouldering bones of old mortality. Llewelyn ("Lulu"), whose journal this book is, has best reason: for 16 years his lungs have harbored ghostly, blood-demanding tubercles. Yet Llewelyn is the cheeriest, takes himself least tragically. He lays life's grim intimacies bravely to heart: a fish taken unawares and frozen fast in black pond ice; a drunken quarryman who compares plowing the deep soil to sailing the sea; a wounded white-breasted hawk staked out for torture by African children...
...Youth. Rachel Crothers' play Mary the Third has been poured into the cinema mold and turned out in the old, familiar fashion. There was a note of uncertainty in the original that reminded one of A Doll's House and gave the visitor a mental bone to gnaw. But the mentality of cinema audiences is not nourished on bones. They are supplied with oozing fritters drenched in the syrup of the happy ending. The story has to do with three generations of married life, with various reflections on modern youth. Eleanor Boardman is an acceptable heroine...
...revealed by student handbooks. Such books, Professor Haskins continued, contain much useless information. Consider the following "Don'ts": "Wash your hands in morning: if time, your face. Don't pick teeth with knife. Don't stare at your neighbor at table. Scrape bones with your knife, don't gnaw them: when done with bones, put them in bowl or on floor...