Word: nicest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...treatment in detail, however, leaves much to be desired. None of the prose writers have mastered certain difficulties. If the story is to be a short one, of necessity the laying of the scene is to be briefly done. The writer is lured into generalities and then, only the nicest discretion in a choice of particularization's will prevent an impression of amputation of the parts of an otherwise perfect whole. In order to avoid this amputation, net only must the detail permit the generalization, but an ill-chosen adjective will irritate as well...