Word: obvious
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...unusually well constructed for the garden variety of fiction, while its predominant values place it well above the color level of such books. It bears no relation to popular bourgeiose stories, and its specious simplicity is belied on every page by an intellectually mature grasp of life. Immediately obvious becomes the pervading quality of seasoned craftsmanship in similar types of writing, of vigorous literary cadence, of a thoughtfully crystallized attitude to wards life. If the author had only a modicum of idealism or of disillusionment, he would write dynamically and "God Head" would not be a non-essential enigma...
...issues more or less local from a political standpoint may yet develop. One of them is farm legislation. The difficulty is that it is not yet obvious just what sort of legislation the farmers want or will be satisfied with, although it is clear enough that the result they want is better crop prices. The other issue is an anti-lynching bill. If this bill comes up in the Senate, the Southerners will undertake a filibuster, an attempt may be made to supply cloture (limit the debate), and the irreconcilables may join the regular Republicans in the cloture move...
When asked how the decision would affect the campaign Professor W. Z. Ripley has been waging for better conditions of corporate control, Professor Cunningham said, "This decision of the Interstate Commerce Commission is in direct accord with Professor Ripley's contentions. It is obvious that if only ten percent of a large issue of stock carries voting rights, a group of small minority holders can gain control of the whole thing, since all they need is 51 percent of ten percent. It was against this feature of the merger, as much as any other that the unfavorable decision was aimed...
...alike, allegorical writing is impossible. Allegory is the only class of writing in which the imitation of outworn literary styles can justify imposing itself upon the readers' attention. There ought to be, in the Advocate articles on Merlin and on the Dragon, a neatly concealed but none the less obvious reference to some Harvard problem or situation in which everyone hereabouts is interested. Mr. Demos does this in a more direct way, in his comparison between science, art, and philosophy, wherein perchance he proves too much for his own chosen partisans. Perhaps his subtlety goes...
...Republican glee overlooks two things. The first and most obvious is that La Follette, Johnson, and Borah have agreed to no tacit truce as the eastern democrats seem to have done. And the several western Democrats led by Walsh, will undoubtedly join the Insurgents in an assault on the aluminum trust and an effort at a definite farm relief bill...