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...Fortune's Maggot" is a short novel, but it is one of the finest things of the year. It is a happy fact that subtlety plays no part in Bostonian censorship or the book might be suppressed. Certainly it is more blasting to one's faith than the hearty rant of Mr. Lewis against the clergy; for whereas Lewis attacked one clergyman, Miss Warner, with her satire and her fine cutting humor, gives sharp jabs into every ideal for which any clergyman stands, leaving the reader with the furtive feeling that there is something wrong with civilization and that life...

Author: By R. T. Sherman ., | Title: MR. FORTUNE'S MAGGOT. By Sylvia Thompson Warner. Viking Press, New York, 1927. $2.00 | 5/16/1927 | See Source »

...they are rather slow in helping them to understand. Mr. Mowbray as the cynic who tries to "Scotch the snake" of life has excellent moments, due perhaps to his possessing the nicest lines of the play. Yet he fails to maintain the consistency of Prior's character by ranting at times as no Priors ever rant--even when convinced that they are soundly, irrevocably dead...

Author: By D. G. G., | Title: THE CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 3/17/1926 | See Source »

Whose but a student's discontented rant...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIME | 4/2/1925 | See Source »

Deans may threaten, rant and pray...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIME | 2/11/1925 | See Source »

...orgiastic syncopation. The jazz-some scores of American popular ballads of "blues" and "mammies" are to be metamorphosed from their present fragmentary staff into an epic-like opera of the formerly humble working girl. Where princeases and courtesans footed nimbly across the stage and devastated admirers with their blasting rant, the tender shop or factory girl, the Cinderella princess of the automobile and ready-made clothes, will share her melodious sorrows and joys with stiff shirted plutocrats...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A NEW ENGINE OF DESTRUCTION | 11/20/1924 | See Source »

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