Word: mr
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...spite of certain good qualities in his style and his accurate portrayal of a social order, Mr. Young on the other hand can be accused of tiring the reader at many times during the book with repetition of scenes which add little to the final affect and make what should be a long short story a full sized novel. The characterization is all indirect and is best in the presentation of the Major's two maiden sisters, who command at the same time the reader's respect and his pity...
...proper criticism of Mr. O'Brien's social theories would take one beyond the scope of this review and would in fact necessitate the employment of most of modern economics and sociology. He is particularly exercised over the increasing standardization of American production and even goes so far as to deplore President Hoover's campaign to reduce varieties of pipe fitting from 17,000 to 610. Perhaps this reviewer is biased, but an intimate acquaintance with a summer water supply dependent upon the cooperation of a Michigan-made pump and the usual New Hampshire assortment of pipe fittings makes...
...much for the treatment afforded by the hundred or so pages allowed this section of the book, and, after all, who is to tell whether mankind is more happy working eight hours a day on a production line or tolling sixteen on the hereditary farm? True it is, as Mr. O'Brien points out, that machines are becoming the masters of their operatives, but are these men worse off than their ancestors who maintained life only at the pleasure of seven-year-locusts or the various vagaries of the weather...
...Mr. Krutch, the author of "Edgar Allan Poe" and "The Modern Temper", spoke Sunday night at the Ford Hall Forum in Boston, where his subject was "The Drama from Ibsen to O'Neill...
...recording organization, is well represented in the exchanges by dance selections. But the prize of all is a release of 1910, entitled "The Charmer." This record, a best seller in its day, was a xylophone solo, and the belles of the season all dropped their cherished copies of "Oh Mr. Dream Man--Please Let Me Dream Some More" and rushed...