Word: lummox
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Apprenticeship to the sort of short story Miss Ferber has written-often slightly plotted, delicate character sketches in which the drama is of emotions rather than events-is splendid training for the writing of a novel. Compare So Big with Lummox (TIME, Oct. 29). Miss Hurst's book has passages of genius. Analyzed, however, it is a collection of sketches around a single theme. So Big, however, is in no sense a book written by an author wedded to short story technique. It is a fine novel. It moves steadily through its technical parts and its emotion value...
...Story. Bertha was a big, blonde, Baltic lummox; one of those inarticulate girls; a strong, hardworking, silent, lonely servant?apparently impassive?regarded by mistress after mistress as just a good plain cook?yet possessed of a certain dumb, unconscious power of understanding. She passed through the lives of many other people, and, somehow, altered them...
...creator of a big, blonde, Baltic lummox...