Word: lummox
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...elder daughters, Fanny and Kate, married off fairly early, are relatively unimportant save for one unforgettable portrait of Kate's choice, whose trousers are always so long that they adopt a "concertina effect" around his ankles. Lena, the fourth daughter, seems faintly reminiscent of Fannie Hurst's Lummox (TIME, Oct. 29)-a large, silent girl who moVes monosyllabically through the story and a length marries a rattle-brained young artist...
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...