Word: rapidity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sent Forth a Raven took Author Roberts five years to write, makes correspondingly slow reading. Author Roberts' tricks of style, which include a growing fondness for the ablative absolute, have hardened into a mannered manner that is more poetry than prose. And her narrative, never rapid, has turned more descriptive, more rhapsodic than ever Her people do a deal of "looken, thinken," but spend most of their time "talken." When Stoner Drake's second wife died, he solemnly vowed never to set foot on God's green earth again. And nobody even attempted to laugh...
...simple, innocent, unsuspecting Adams House Sophomore was informed in no uncortain terms that he was to report at Cambridge Police Station Number Two to answer very serious charges. Needless to say, our frightened young man was on hand. Visions of prison walls, deportation, even the chair passed in rapid succession before his eyes as he waited. Now that he thought of it, he had made some pretty serious criticism of the N.R.A. at dinner last week. In a moment a gruff voice demanded him to plead guilty or not guilty to charges of running a "Date Bureau" supposedly...
Lick-lip melodrama from the word go. Paprika unrolls a rapid narrative of gypsy love, fistfights, Budapest night life, drunken officers, and a plethora of bedroom scenes. Paprika was the platinum-blonde bastard of a Hungarian nobleman and a gypsy queen. She grew up in the same wagon with Rogi, a young fiddler who loved her well. Paprika loved him too. but she was a wayward girl, and took delight in making him suffer. Unable to take it any longer, Rogi went off to Budapest, where he made a sensation as a musician and became the kept...
...pounder rapid fire Nordenfeldt, this gun was donated to the Navy in 1898 by a group of patriotic Harvard graduates for use on the auxiliary cruiser "Harvard...
Epidemic conditions have not yet been reached, according to Dr. Paul H. Means '17, medical adviser. There are now lower cases than there were two weeks ago, although danger of rapid spread is still prevalent owing to the laxity of students in reporting the disease...