Word: loree
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Neurotics are the favorite topic of dreary modern fiction. Bilby's Doll is a neurotic whose hallucinations are logically built upon the terrific shock of her childhood. But the lore of her witchcraft, and the superstitions of her New England neighbors, lift her out of the psychiatric laboratory into the worthy realm of fiction. Author Forbes formalizes her fantastics with a prose borrowed in part from the 17th century when witches were common subject of puritanical debate...
...wise that the Great Father (head god) in a fit of jealousy cursed them to infecundity. But gods thrive on the fear and flattery of mortals. So Great Father thought up subservient man for their entertainment, molded him of refuse. The dying Satyrs tried in vain to teach their lore to this tribe of puny and hornless creatures. But the earth-crawlers spent their happy, ignorant days in pleasant dalliance-not only with fair fellow mortals, but with the immortals who often condescended. Thereupon utter confusion arose as to who was half-god, who three-quarters...
...York members, the Messrs. La Guardia, Griffin, O'Connor and Black. Bulky, blue jowled Major La Guardia, irregular Republican, had stolen a march on his Democratic col leagues by riding from New London, Conn., to Boston in the Submarine S-8. He had returned full of submarine lore, a loud champion of the Navy. "Was it because they treated him so nicely?" sneered Mr. Griffin, who rather fancies his own knowledge of submarines. "Are not the members of this caste [i. e. the Navy] now due for a spanking from our people?" asked Mr. O'Connor. Secretary Wilbur...
...with pathos, shaken with laughter-if he escapes suffocation in the cloud of dialect which pervades the book from cover to cover. There is also a spirit of ineffable quaintness at times a bit trying. Gritny People is, perhaps, less fiction than a study of primitive Negro character and lore...
...marshy lake and near to a sleepy town. The farm has an aristocratic history, the lake an island bearing an abandoned hermitage and consequent legends, the town a legion of characters in whose existence English custom could well speak and from whose mouths her lesser and provincial lore could proceed in a more complete and interesting manner. The setting and the material must have opened to Mr. Reid many opportunities for elaboration and diversification of his tale. He evidently lacked either the requisite desire, daring, or technique...