Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hired Help...
...Gentleman" that Mrs. Charles Phips* saw on the subway was some of your hired help...
...violin under his chin and played Mozart. When he had finished he smiled simply at the big audience-smiled, and soon went on playing. He did not seem to notice that women were weeping, that men were looking at their waistcoat buttons. .After his last number, he could not help noticing that hats were flying up in the air, that the room was ringing with deafening cheers; that women were throwing violets at him. Startled, he ran off the stage. His mother protected him from men and women who came plunging through back doors crying, "He is a love...
...broad, general treatment, this book will serve very well. versy with labor leaders. He was naturally opposed to the "closed" shop; and on one occasion "gave labor a violent shock when he called "the scab' an American hero. Labor leaders, nevertheless, respected and even liked him." They could not help reacting favorably to his obvious sincerity, earestness and courage...
...reader cannot help but be carried if he take any delight at all in apt phrases applied to gestures and expressions or if his sympathy responds to the semi-tragic aspects of homely irony. As a whole, however, "Tomorrow Morning" belongs to the class of modern biographical novels, clinging helplessly to chronology for their structure and unity that try, in a strained way, to reconcile the contradictions of life. Unwilling or unable suggest philosophical standards and apparently indisposed to endorse, with a whole heart, the futility of things, they feebly press the conclusion that solace lies only in the passing...