Word: pleasant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Eita Coventry was Julian Street's first novel. He waited until middle life to write it because he believes that balance and experience are necessary for the production of long fiction. Perhaps the first characteristic of this sane, pleasant gentleman is his belief in the absolute necessity for an author to regard his craft as something sacred and worthy of the greatest effort both in the de-velopment of an idea and the setting of it on paper. Mr. Street's short stories are many of them examples of the finest use of short fictional technique. They have...
...little book--scarcely more than a short-story novel in form--will not make any great stir, nor be heralded with superlatives, nor even, in all probability, be granted the attention it deserves. For it is pleasant, gentle, free from the slightest taint of flashiness; and has been written, as all books must be if they are to live, as the embodiment of a certain ideal...
...Herbie, having slept himself out of the Marine Corps, got sluggishly involved in an impossible intrigue - the family fortunes failed-all there was for Dagmar to do was to marry a middle-aged bear for money to take care of her whole ineffective family-and so she did. A pleasant and amusing novel...
...Imperial Preference" with a mixture of pride and fear. They would be able to point out that the English economists of the nineteenth century who so soundly berated Americans for not adopting a policy of free trade were now deserted by their own countrymen. Still, it would hardly be pleasant to contemplate a triumph in economic theory which might seriously affect profitable trade which we flow enjoy in wheat cotton, and other raw materials. Since the passage of the Frozenly Tariff the United States is hardly in a position to complain much over unreasonable duties. Consequently it seems that Americans...
There are bookplates that are really designed to adorn a page, not to squat upon it like a nuisance; bookplates that have some genuine connection both with the books they rest in and the owners of those books; pleasant, interesting, engaging, individual bookplates. You sigh, and resolve to have one made...