Word: maggot
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...English Dictionary defines the maggot as "a nonsensical on perverse fancy, a crotchet", and Miss Warner employs the word as a titular alias for the sprite who deprived the genteel and clerical Mr. Fortune, prepared to devote his declining years to ministering to the spiritual needs of the inhabitants of an idyllic South Sea Isle, of his religion, his sense of duty, and his peace of mind. Fanua, a tropic island, was apparently a fertile field for an efficient missionary, but in the end Mr. Fortune decided that there are gods and gods, and the importance they play in this...
...Fortune's Maggot" rises like a slender and fragile tower out of the morass of modern fiction. Miss Warner, who was responsible for "Lolly Willowes, or The Loving Huntsman," is technically one of the most interesting authors now writing. Like Virginia Woolf, she never wastes a word. Each sentence is placed deftly, accurately; each paragraph is an exquisitely tooled bit. And like another woman writer, Willa Cather, she possesses a refreshing air of calm and quiet. When one reads her it is with a sense that the book is a treat; that it is of a rare vintage, not often...
...Earth, take charge of this maggot of the dunghill who, for a brief space, inhabited our sphere of life. This man's premature demise was brought on himself by his constant refusal to hear his master's voice. . . . Let us all take a damn fine drink now as we lower John to his final resting place in oblivion. Amen...
...Here, in the prosperous bounteous United States, I feel like a maggot in a great big piece of cheese." Thus Miss E. ("Wee Ellen") Wilkinson, shingled, petite, British Laborite M. P., broached an appeal for U. S. contributions to the British coal miners strike fund last week at a feminist foregathering in Manhattan presided over by Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt. "Wee Ellen," green of hat, green-gowned, dangling jauntily a green purse continued: "Nearly a million miners are locked out,"* (TIME...
...maggot and the mold...