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...interrupt a man in the middle of his life you surprise him, so to speak, in the middle of a sentence. . . . Put an unexpected semicolon there. The rest of the sentence may be entirely different." This thesis, more useful to drama than true to life, is the theme of Author Thome's pleasingly plausible novel. Wisely he sets his English protagonists in Spain, where the sun is hotter, the moonlight more insidious, where anything unusual may happen. . . . A microcosmic melodrama, of the same general type as Grand Hotel, Delay in the Sun is brightly and neatly written, almost persuades...
...Mdivani, flounced out of Claridge's too, and retreated to a private sanatorium. Her doctor announced that she could see no one, not even the Prince. Thus began the twelfth month of the Hutton-Mdivani round-the-world honeymoon. For the next two days Alexis allowed nothing to interrupt his polo (on a magnificent string of ponies given him by his wife as a wedding present). Said he: "I am not worried about Barbara's condition. I hope to see her as soon as possible." Meanwhile Franklyn L. Hutton, Barbara's father, was speeding for England aboard...
...Faulkner's, though of course they suffer from the necessity of proving that existence is unpleasant and futile. Two novel devices, somewhat reminiscent of Dos Passons' "Camera Eye" and "Newsreels" are used by March to emphasize and reiterate his theme. "The Whisper" consists of dozen very short stories which interrupt the main narrative to state in parables the recurring motifs of the novel; "From the Diary of Sarah Tarleton" consists of excerpts from the self-book of a pious old lady who looked on life with unruffled satisfaction in her God and herself, heightening the reader's understanding...
Soon for all Mr. Lewis' grand manner he had the supporters of the Treaty jumping up & down in haste to contradict him. Mr. Pittman: I hesitate to interrupt the Senator, but he evidently did not understand what I read. Possibly it was poorly read...
Since then Il Duce has been out to change the framework of the League, sincerely believing that the voices of common people and common nations ought not to interrupt the deliberations and decisions of The Great...