Word: hurst
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...trio had been called as a result of developments earlier in the week. From witness after witness the Committee had heard more about strike conditions in Pennsylvania and West Virginia. Clergymen and newsgatherers (including passionate Fannie Hurst) had brought fresh tales of squalor, brutality, poverty, Bolshevism...
...civilization which countenances the wretchedness that exists along the hems of this fine city becomes a horror. . . ." (Fannie Hurst in the Hearst press...
...Senator Johnson chosen, he could have quoted Writer Hurst much further with potent effect. She, outstanding "throb" artist in U. S. fiction, at last had a subject which even her clotted vocabulary did not seem to burlesque. Other Hurstian patches on the strike were...
...latest book Fannie Hurst undertakes a pretentious task and fails somewhat of doing it justice. "A President is Born", is an effort to portray the early life and development of a man who was to become President of the United States. David Schuyler, the character in question, is followed from birth to early manhood, and occasion is found to indicate how his ability and qualifications for his later position in life worked themselves out, giving a forecast of the line of his subsequent achievements. To overcome the difficulty of interpreting the early life of her hero in the light...
Under Fannie Hurst's pen, David Schuyler is born great, that is, he is endowed with extremely unnatural characteristics from the earliest days. He is a little too square and solid, a little oppressive. This aspect is not helped by the other characterizations. They are all a little overdone, and being too cut and dried, they do not wear well. The style contributes to this end, for in her obvious desire to be forceful, Fannie Hurst is led into grotesqueries, of which one example should suffice, though it does not explain. When the author refers to the Thanksgiving turkey...