Word: puzzlement
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With this spinal cord of a narrative to hold it together, Kit Brandon is less diffuse than Sherwood Anderson's earlier novels, and Kit's candid puzzlement lacks the somewhat forced naïveté that weakened Beyond Desire and Dark Laughter. Sometimes the author intrudes with speculations about machinery, forest conservation, unemployment, strikes, the TVA, but his interruptions are brief and often effective. "The reader should bear in mind," he says simply, in describing Kit's marriage, "that Kit Brandon was and is a real person, a living American woman. How much of her real story...
Promptly the speech was rushed to the Attorney General. The hour was late and in some puzzlement the A. G. and his staff scrutinized its wholly innocuous phrases, wondering what the P. M. could possibly have thought might be indiscreet or dangerous. This labor having been completed, it turned out next morning that God-fearing Orator Baldwin had meant to remind himself by his marginal note to: "Refer again to Almighty...
Anyone delighted by the richness of British character could find it served up on a heaping platter in the House of Commons last week, steaming with honest emotion, thick with puzzlement, piquant with paradox and much like the late Diamond Jim Brady's favorite fish sauce which was so good that "if you poured some of it over a turkish towel, you could eat it all." Epicures for this sort of dish, Edward of Wales and the Soviet Ambassador sat down, elbow-to-elbow, just above the House of Commons' clock...
...more highly. On Page 1 of the Times's Sunday Book Review section appeared a typographical botch which any country editor would be ashamed to permit in his paper-a line which showed only as a faint, undecipherable blur. The type had obviously been scraped off. Readers' puzzlement grew to shock when, on Page 14 of the same section, they found a two-column, five-inch-high, grey smudge, beneath which was the following caption...
...Japan to cripple that part of this area within the Great Wall by demanding that its local Government, the Peiping Political Council, be abolished. Nanking could not refuse but the adroitness with which Premier Wang & Cabinet yielded caused Japan's Military Attache in Peiping to exclaim in puzzlement: "I do not regret the abolition of the Council, but the Chinese did it suddenly, without talking to us in advance. That is not so kind. And apparently they did not decide who is going to be responsible in the Council's place to negotiate with the Japanese Army...