Word: orchid
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hothouse drank the warm, steamy air under glass. Until she really believed that her true relations should be with fern and tree and flower, not with her practical family and tiresome, boreal Roland. After charmingly imagined conversations with a philosophical water-lily and passionate adventures with an Oriental orchid, however, she turns back from this sowing of wild buds to the more dependable arms of the man. . . . The spice of mockery blended with creamy whimsicality in a mold of sophisticated prose poetry is apparently the staple produce of Author Ronald Fraser, young and English, who last year charmed international esthetes...
...main facts in the social, political, and intellectual history of the various periods of English literature. It helps one to realize that literature grows out of and expresses the life of its day, and that it can hardly be understood without some knowledge of that. Literature is not an orchid...
...Orchid. (Cost...
...wickedness of a fiend, is deftly handled with occasional bits in quite the Stevensonian vein. Naturally it is the very modern heroine who undoes the doctor by giving herself to him when he had expected to seduce her formally. She, so to speak, ravishes from him the long nurtured orchid of his wickedness. The grim dénouement, though revealed at the inception of the plot, is so skillfully contrived as to come off amid real suspense. Altogether a fine technical performance by an author who pretends only to melodrama but achieves something more...
...college with a slave, two horses, dogs and his gun. Such central story as the book has is that of Cousin Ellen Stark, who comes to "Heaven Trees" from chill and granite Vermont, there to unfold from a pale violet of a girl into the rarest Southern orchid of them...