Word: momentâ
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Dates: during 1923-1923
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...CINDER BUGGY?Garet Garrett?Dutton ($2.00). Wrought iron made New Damascus great, in its moment???wrought iron and two men, Aaron Breakspeare and Enoch Gib. Aaron, the popular, engaging, lovable idealist; Enoch the dour and practical, well-hated, well-feared. The men clashed over two things? a woman and steel. Popular Aaron won the woman but his dream of a steel age failed?it was still too early. Enoch clung to iron?and when Aaron's son, John Breakspeare, brought his father back to New Damascus, dead, the clash between practical Enoch and young Breakspeare, between iron and steel...
What is there left to analyze, then, when one tries to pull them apart? A mood?a moment???a fragrance? sorrow?joy?a living man, a living woman, suddenly, completely seen...
...civilized, concerned with the first twenty-odd years or so of the life of Marigold Trent, whose " guiding impulses " were " politeness and a feeling for the dramatic." She posed to herself, her relatives, her suitors, her friends, her husband?always charmingly, always quite believing the pose of the moment???and nearly always getting herself and all around her into bushels of trouble. The ingrained human fondness for self-dramatization has seldom been more ingratiatingly described than in this charming and sometimes poignant comedy of the impulses and poses of a highly attractive young American...