Word: patterns
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...employs no plot to give it body, no characters to give it blood and spirit. Its subject is the continent of Africa; and its strangeness proves once more the truth of an ancient apothegm concerning truth and fiction. Written in the manner of a novel and cast in the pattern of a travelogue, it belongs to that obscure hinterland of literature that W. H. Hudson visited in Green Mansions and Defoe, to a certain extent, in Robinson Crusoe...
...opens up are enormous. Inequalities of stature, which have hitherto been almost insuperable obstacles in the way of borrowing other people's clothes, will be smoothed out as though with a flatiron. Dress manufacturing will be standardized, and mail order hourses will be concerned only with width, style, and pattern. Even the annual parade of the street-cleaners will be orderly and level-headed...
Innocent Eyes. The Winter Garden again turns out a revue of the standard bouncing pattern, with possibly more gold on the costumes, and less costumes on the girls...
...roam the wilds of Whitechapel. If anything, their numbers have greatly increased since the days when the Artful Dodger and his merry associates removed pocket bandkerchiefs from the coat-talls of respectable old gentlemen, and disturbed the waking hours of Bow Street Magistrates. Human nature is still a checkered pattern of blacks and whitos...
...product of Prof. George P. Baker's Harvard 47 Workshop is true to the pattern, using a revivalistic meeting to disclose the name of the seducer of a girl who has been betrayed, despite her heavily ingrained religiosity. Aside from this feature, chief interest in Roscoe W. Brink's play is atmospheric, its locale being laid in an out-of-the-way community in the Catskills where piety is the main business and every other interest subsidiary. Here, in 1870, the elders, on finding a girl has been misled, hasten her marriage to the son of the village...