Word: loves
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Children love inelegant taunts...
...give "meaning and significance to otherwise unwieldy subjects." She suggests that parents and teachers recognize the educational value of children's folk literature, that writers for children use it as a model. Says she, sagely: "[Children's] humor involves a laugh at the simpleton. But perhaps children love the simpleton better than the wise...
...broke up this amiable relationship: New England-born Edward Colburne, and Virginia-born Lieutenant-Colonel Carter, a dark-haired, hard-drinking, segar-smoking veteran of many wars and love affairs, a widower of nearly 40 who had stayed with the Union despite mysterious intrigues with Southern filibusters before the war. Intelligent, discerning, timid, young Colburne let the Colonel walk off with Lillie. She was almost annoyed about it. Colburne, she thought, was "very pleasant, lively and good; but-and here she ceased to reason-she felt that he was not magnetic." The Colonel certainly was. When all four turned...
...damsels seem moral abstractions. Although, in its 466 pages, the book sometimes seems labored, and antiquated asides slow down its fast story, De Forest's wit picks it up, springs out in the plain talk of soldiers, his comments on the appallingly dull conversations of people in love, on the mores of the Puritan North and the Cavalier South. Says Yale's Professor Gordon S. Haight, who believes that De Forest's characters are unsurpassed in U. S. fiction: "It was an unfortunate moment to launch a realistic story of the war. At that time the bereaved...
Blandings Castle, the Shropshire seat of pig-mad, sieve-memoried Clarence, ninth Earl of Emsworth, is once more the scene of action, and the threatened abduction of his prize porker, the Empress of Blandings, is again a mainspring of the plot. Before the final exposure, young love is triumphant and the Empress back snuffling...