Word: live
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Gauguin, tiring of his life in France, went to Tahiti to live and there he did his greatest works. There he achieved in his art an unsurpassed decorative quality combined with a wonderful gift for design and color...
...truant officer busily seizes the occasion for renewed efforts to send Star to an asylum. Captain Nazro cleverly remembers that when Star was washed ashore a photograph album was rescued also, containing portraits of her kin. He writes to them. They appear. Kindly folk, they take Star to live with them in Boston. When she pines for Captain January, they charter a small yacht on which he is captain, Nazro first mate and the tap-dancing villager, the crew...
Rookies. Principal purpose of the training trips to the South which big-league teams make every spring is to encourage sportswriters to instill into baseball addicts profitably enthusiastic curiosity. Principal topics of early baseball reports are, consequently, players recruited from minor-league teams. Few widely heralded rookies live up to advance promises. There is, however, no yardstick for their future importance except the amount of publicity they receive. Most publicized rookie of the current year is Joseph Di Maggio, 21, outfielder from the San Francisco Seals for whom the New York Yankees exchanged a reputed $75,000 and five players...
Immature though his sense of generality may be, Playwright Shaw displays an easy, forceful style of writing. Says one of his live soldiers to another: "Kids shouldn't be dead, Charley. That's what they musta figured when the dirt started fallin' in on 'em. . . . Did they want to be standin' there when the lead poured in? They wanted to be home readin' a book or teachin' their kid c-a-t spells cat or takin' a woman out into the country in an open car with the wind blowin...
Great novelists live with their characters; lesser ones pay calls. Not a great novelist but a good one, Sylvia Thompson is an adept at taking her leave, never embarrasses her characters or her readers by staying with them too long at a stretch. Third Act in Venice, her latest (and ninth) novel, is a brilliant exhibition of her episodic power, her knowledge of how to be absolutely tactful though relatively true...