Word: perfected
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ball was carried back to mid-field where its sojourn was but short. After a few preliminary plays, Merrill, who had gone in in place of Jenkins, broke loose and with almost perfect interference, carried the hall 45 yards for a second touchdown. Mosely, who in the quick succession of quarterbacks, had replaced McGlone, attempted the goal from the field but kicked wild...
...Significance. This brief novel, told with perfect simplicity and skill, creates at least three characters as living as any in our fiction, and summons up a ghost-the ghost, the soul, of an entire period in our national life-when the West was the West of the railroad kings. It establishes Miss Cather firmly as among the very first of our novelists...
...Critics. Fanny Butcher in the Chicago Daily Tribune: " A delicate, lovely, fragile piece of literature . . . that very rare thing, a perfect thing in parvo...
...Bookman: "More novelette than novel, but it is almost perfect of its kind...
...always, Adelyn Bushwell was effective, although she seems more at home and certainly more attractive, in her character parts than in straight roles. Walter Gilbert, the hero, is too thoroughly a matinee idol to carry much conviction or to gain much sympathy but he had to be entirely too perfect to seem altogether human. Edward Darney, as the cunning, scheming plotter had a different part, but quite a natural one, and he handled it well throughout...