Word: raggedness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Until he was 32, little doe-eyed Jonah, the Tyre cakeseller, merely talked with the Lord for his own personal pleasure. But when he was ordered on a propaganda mission to Nineveh, the pleasure went out of it. Why pick on him, said Jonah, he wasn't interested in...
When Dr. Riddle talks most earnestly about glands, he is apt for emphasis to indicate their location on his own person, and his eyes begin to sparkle. He smokes a great many de-nicotinized cigarets down to ragged little stubs. In his enthusiasm he lunches in his laboratory on sandwiches...
There are minor faults to the book. At times the continuity is ragged, often the prose is heavy, but underneath the story remains, so powerful that all it needs is a truthful description. Admiral Byrd is absolutely truthful.
After losing twice to the Yale representative in the last two years, a flashy Kirkland eleven ran Berkeley College ragged yesterday morning on Soldiers Field, scoring in the first, third, and fourth periods to run up an imposing 18-0 score.
The stories published with The Fifth Column make up an even stronger criticism of the play. These 49 tales include all those published in Hemingway's three volumes of short stories, and several new ones, add up to 495 pages of superb prose, and make the collection one of...