Word: murph
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...still conservative in appearance; no artist's model smirks on the cover; but the contents of the excellent November number show here and there ravages of the bacilli that beset the ten-cent magazines, Mr. Petersen, for instance, has caught the--Red Blood Craze. His cattleship story called "Murph"--well-constructed and boldly written and vivid as it unquestionably is--is too full of perspiration and profanity and filth. Mr. Petersen's leading character has nothing distinctive about him, excepting an odor like a New England barnyard after an April shower." This sentence is more suited to a report...