Word: gooding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Plymouth at 8:10--"Jenny". Jane Cowl and a good cast go talky-talky, and continue far into the night...
Loew's State--"The Pagan". A fairly good picture, chiefly notable as presenting Ramon Novarro in a singing role...
Loew's Orpheum--"Alibi". A thoroughly good crook melodrama...
...found in the average abridged dictionary. The attempt to recover the idiom of another age so deliberate that the writer cannot have realized the many-times repeated truth that the Elizabethtn poets were not works with "thees" and "dosts" and "wilts." Among their contemporaries the words were in good and familiar usage, and a writer three hundred years later is not justified in using them in preference to the language of his own times...
THEY are coming off the press these days like wintry morning griddle cakes from the Georgian iron. But, unlike the dependable breakfast staple, detective stories are of no uniform quality. Every so often there is a good one. It is probably the lure of discovery that keeps the habitual reader going. One can always pick up the newest offering with trembling excitement. However, in the case of Reginald Wright Kauffman's most recent temptation there is no cause for excitement. "Beg Pardon, Sir!" is not an intrusion upon the low average of its contemporaries...