Word: litter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...which there is opinion in the news columns and facts in the editorial pages is "college education, is it it a good thing?" Every manufacturer of cheap automobiles, every successful chorus girl who has been promoted to the spotlight, and now the world's richest, straphanger feel capable of Litter dicta upon this universal topic...
...telling points. In any event, the quarrel has promise of the acrimonious personalities which always please the bystander. Although not masterpieces of literature the rival invectives have the morbid appeal of a scandal sheet. The dog-fighting portion of the intelligentsia hopes that the quarrel will be long and litter...
THAT NICE YOUNG COUPLE-Francis Hackett - Boni, Liveright ($2.00). Floundering fearfully through the litter of spare adjectives, similes and metaphors that has been accumulating in his office for years, Critic Hackett of The New Republic and elsewhere finally gets his first novel out in the open and into sustained motion on Page 245, where childless Eleanor Byrd Beale from the Middle West is about to meet Demi-Artist Stephen Tannay from the South, fall really in love for the first time in her life and be willfully unfaithful to her husband, Lawyer Edward Beale of Brooklyn, Harvard and Manhattan...
...easier to order Raisuli's removal than to accomplish it, however. No mule and no prancing Arab steed could be found strong enough to support his grotesque corpulence and a special litter had to be constructed to bear his great weight. A strange cavalcade left Tazreut. First, marched 20 fierce Riffian guards, armed hip and thigh. Second, came a huge, ill-fashioned sedan chair, supported at each corner by a pole and carried by 16 husky men. Inside the sedan box was Raisuli, reclining on soft carpets and magnificent cushions. Over his paunchy, shapeless face he wore a turban...
Marion Coakley, lured somehow into this dramtic litter, plays well ahead of her materials. Mr. Ames adds little to his established reputation. Most of the subordinates were valueless...