Word: merrick
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Though French, wielded by such masters of the interposed Gallicism as W. J. Locke, Booth Tarkington, Leonard Merrick, is the most insidious invader of the English novel, the other tongues are not backward in their occasional donation of a cryptic phrase. Villains are at almost any moment likely to break out with a brisk donner-wetter. What would a volume by Fannie Hurst be thought of without an occasional lapse into some good expressive Yiddish? Haunch, Paunch and Jowl is plentifully spattered with the colorfully Hebraic...
...most successful stories these British authors have given us are in humorous vein. "The Mayor's Dovecote", by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, is an amusing tale, a pleasant revival of human nature in fiction. "Miss Bracegirdle Does Her Duty", by Stacy Aumonier, contains a situation upon which Leonard Merrick might have congratulated himself. This is another story that inevitably suggests a much greater writer; would that Mr. Merrick had put his finger...
...failed through the attempt to make the commonplace suggest the emotional. Mr. Boyd loses his laurels by pure timidity. No doubt one says less than he means, and it is an offense to open the heart; but Mr. Boyd plods with matter of fact foot along a path where Merrick would have sung with "voice memorial". Perhaps it is not timidity that led Mr. Boyd astray; he sinned by rushing in where genius might have trod...
Singles.--W. T. Smith defeated O'Brien (E), 6-4, 9-7; G. H. Perkins defeated Merrick (E), 6-3, 6-4; G. D. Debevoise defeated Parker (E), 2-6, 6-1, 8-6; A. L. Weisman defeated Derrill (E), 2-6, 6-3, 6-2; Bernard Bandler defeated Sewall (E), 6-2, 9-7; G. M. Laimbeer defeated Holt...
Doubles.--Smith and Debevoise defeated Derrill and O'Brien (E), 6-4, 8-6; Perkins and A. R. Allen defeated Holt and Merrick (E), 6-1, 7-5; Weisman and Laimbeer defeated Parker and Johnson...