Word: nordics
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Righteousness, peculiarly Nordic chastity, and much bloodletting characterized the dime novels. At their worst they exhibited a style grandiose, bizarre, ornate; at their best they were active with verbs aplenty. They gave Russian and European pre-War children the idea that the U. S. was a land whose dust was completely bitten by redskins. At Manhattan book-auctions certain dime novels now bring between...
...summer cottage (TIME, Sept. 23). Like his father whom he, the eldest of six sons, served as secretary in Washington, Son Kvale was chosen as a Farmer-Laborite and will be the sole representative of that party in the House.* The new Congressman is an engaging young man, thoroughly Nordic in appearance, thoroughly accommodating in manner...
...function. Seemingly he has begun to assume that he is chairman of the Com mittee on Admissions and that the Lord's house which he tends is one of the better country clubs. . . . There is no record that Jesus Christ ever said, 'Love thy Nordic neighbor as thyself,' or 'Suffer little Caucasian children to come unto...
...love-sexual, parental, paternal, filial, and social-are kindred emotions." "Other things being equal, the savage regards the satisfaction of the sexual instinct exactly as he regards the satisfaction of hunger and thirst." In giving psychological data on chastity, kissing, love, obscenity, orgy, oath, curse, blessing, Author Crawley. though Nordic, writes in a style itself marked by almost complete freedom from Nordic taboos: that is, he writes scientifically. The science of his insight is occasionally relieved by its poetry. This is more of a distinction than is the approval given him by Sexpert Havelock Ellis, lavish approver...
...more than any one ought to be asked to endure. Always the same face, always the same proclamations, always the same way of stealing money. It is like having only one woman." An effervescent story, eminently readable, Tomorrow Never Comes is running-fire satire on politics and love, Nordic inhibitions, Latin excesses...