Word: offhand
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...stories, "Tom Morley, Waiter," by Arthur Holden Gilbert, is written in an offhand vein well suited to the subject. The point might have been reached as well in fewer words. Though the plot of "A Spool of Thread" by Forbes Watson, seems a bit trivial, the story is well told, with good detail and imagination. The best part of "The Sea," by A. P. Wadsworth, is the straightforward style in which it is told. A clean setting is made in the fewest possible words and the story is free from interruptions...