Word: lingered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...develops into the psychological realism of a Stendhal novel, ends like a Dostoievskian drama. And the whole thing leaves an impression as unmistakably Italian as a plaster wall painted to look like marble. A tour de force of remarkable virtuosity, this story of a woman's disintegration will linger in readers' minds as a clever analysis but not a revelation...
...morbid depression which was the result of the Great War came a torrent of cynical and hopeless literature. The theater was beseiged with it, and even today the relies of that grim period linger on in all the arts. Little of this cynicism will be "noted or long remembered" except as something which typified the Twenties. But a few works stand out as having truly lasting qualities. One of these is Heinz Liepmann's "Nights of an Old Child" which has been translated from its original German by A. Lynton Hudson...
...movies have found their forte in comedy, and are pounding away at it with gratification to all concerned. No need to linger in the drawing room and draw) out withering words, all in observance of the mity of space, no need for this with the wide world and dizzy speed at easy command. So the new comedy goes tearing around at a breakneck pace, and drives one into gulps of amazed laughter. "Love on the Run" is just such a picture, and keeps the promise contained in its title. But not content to run amuck with foaming month...
Makes gentlemen who linger libertines...
...equal approbation a catalog of the casual heroisms of everyday work, the hazards of steelmaking, of mining, of railroading. He records the last words of a wireless operator on a sinking ship ("This is no night to be out without an umbrella!") and the names of railroads: The Delay Linger and Wait is the D. L. & W., the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western...