Word: naturedness
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The book opens with a sort of prelude, in which Uncle Domitien, visiting the Moermesters' farm, makes an only half-serious promise to Karelina (then just in her teens and worried about life) to help her if things get too much for her. Before long she needs his assistance...
The Author. "Inviting Stuart Cloete to dinner," complains his novelist-friend, E. Arnot Robinson, "one is never quite sure whether one will get the ex-Coldstream Guards' officer . . . who has a disconcerting habit of saying 'Good show' when he means 'How nice,' or whether the...
The scene of the book is Key West and Cuba. The story is a sort of saga, disconnected and episodic, of one Harry Morgan, burly, surly, hard-natured "conch" (as Key West natives call themselves), whose life has been spent in the single-minded effort to keep himself and his...
In his Story of Mankind (1921), Story of the Bible (1923), Van Loon's Geography (1932), Ships (1935) and other books, Hendrik Willem Van Loon has avoided the full light of adult criticism by seeming to write not quite for adults, has thus been able to remain one of...
Said the Nation's good-natured epitaph last week: "We liked Mr. Broun and his page, and we claimed for ourselves and our other regular contributors only the right we unquestionably gave to him-free expression of opinion. The irony of Mr. Broun's disapproval was that he...