Word: kneeling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...CALDWELL'S latest offering of short stories will enhance his reputation among those who already admire him, but it will certainly add to the indignation of those who fail to find in his widely praised artistry a compensation for the insensate violence of his themes. Kneel to the Rising Sun is in the author's most characteristic manner. The stories are for the most part laid in the South (which once provided us with our most romantic fiction) and deal with such subjects as lynching, starvation among the share-croppers and unemployed factory workers, criminal assault, black and white "naturals...
...KNEEL TO THE RISING SUN-Erskine Caldwell-Viking...
Critics of Author Caldwell who had begun to think that his zany style was effective largely because of its Rabelaisian grossness last week were thinking again, after reading Kneel to the Rising Sun, his latest collection of short stories. As in all Caldwell books, the phallic content was high-though not so gamy as to attract the attention of the censor-but the best of these 17 stories were more cathartic than aphrodisiac. Some of them...
...Singing fervently as they marched, they pulled $10, $5 and $1 bills from their wallets, fluttered them on the altar steps like autumn leaves. When the last of 5,000 people had passed by, Bishop Perry shuffled into the pile of money, lifted both hands for the congregation to kneel with him in a prayer of thanks. Then seven attendants stuffed the bills into bags, carried them out to be counted-$7,916.56. Meanwhile New York's small Bishop William Thomas Manning had marched, not up to the altar singing "Onward Christian Soldiers," but straight out of Convention Hall...
...floor, places in his buttonhole a flower given him by Mrs. Rothschild (Mrs. Arliss) and orders his agents to buy. Presently, there arrives from the battlefield a message that Napoleon has lost. When next seen. Nathan Rothschild is at court with his wife, wondering on which knee to kneel while being knighted. His daughter Julie is engaged to marry Captain Fitzroy and the chains have been removed from Frankfort's Jew Street...