Word: overlook
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...plot, however, he has successfully overcome any dangerous tendencies toward skilful craftsmanship, and has turned out a most amazing burst of oozy sentiment. The jacket description of the plot follows: "Temporarily bored with civilization, its services, its ease and its sophisticatons, Walter Overlook breaks away from hs successful business in New York, and plays hookey in the Maine farming country, in the very house where he was born. After fifteen years he meets his boyhood sweetheart and finds her perfect in her country setting, but no longer of his world. This experience has an unexpected ending...
...York apartment and his four menservants in the lurch. The reader is expected to sympathize with this move, and, if the experience of the reviewer is any criterion, fails pitifully. All this despite the assistance of a scene at the end, when a New York swell of Mr. Overlook's acquaintance hits the trail to Maine to find out what has happened to that financier...
Dapper and citified in spats and white piping on his vest, this elegant gentleman steps into the Overlook homestead and meets the missus. During the course of the conversation Overlook allows that despite his fifteen years in the city, he has always been a country lad at heart, whereas his visitor and his charming wife were born to the civilized life of cities. The latter looks at Mrs. Overlook with "a twist of hopeless longing in his eyes," and replies in a low voice. "I was born in a Iowa...
...years have passed. The newspapers of the East united yesterday to mark the solemnity and the import of the occasion. Yet, in the eloqence and in the fervor of what was written on editorial pages, it became only too easy to overlook the news that these same papers carried. One, in its leading story, describes relations with Mexico as strained to the point of war. Another leads its front page with a story picturing the armed menace of the new Germany. Others discussed the rumblings of war that have thundered out of China ever since the Nanking incident. Every paper...
...Viscount Astor, husband of famed Nancy Astor, "first woman M. P." said recently: "A great many peers seem to regard the House of Lords as a male sanctuary or a golf club with membership restricted to retired Colonels. . . . They prefer to overlook that it is an assembly making laws for 40,000,000 people of whom half are women. . . . The House of Lords is the only public body which has not recognized that women have rights...