Word: reappearance
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Throughout the novel hundreds of characters, as diverse as life itself, appear and reappear, and their every motive is analyzed. Proust reflects their world, which, like himself, is neurotic, tortured, and decadent. It is in the great piling up of character and detail that the overpowering effect is produced. The author knows, better than any other contemporary writer, the human mind; and he makes each character living and real. He has two primary interests: sexual perversion and social change. Few have had better subjects to show these than Proust in the Paris from 1890 till after...
...score of lawsuits before he became the property of American Tobacco Co. in 1898. As time passed the bull seemed to grow younger, more alert. He turned his head east again, became civilized, modest, stood behind a fence. Nine years ago he went into retirement, did not reappear until last summer, when he emerged, still proud & handsome, looking for a mate...
...line of gilded caricatures: Social Arbitress Mrs. Townley, her chief rival Mrs. Topping, climbing Mrs. Crumb, many another socialite host & parasite. All of them dislike one another, exert themselves to the utmost to do one another down. Though Stuffed Shirts is not a continued story, the same stuffed shirts reappear from time to time, and if you are curious about their relationship a genealogical table at the end will make all clear. If you are a constant reader of the society page you may have some fun adventuring among Authoress Brokaw's straw people. If you know the locale...
...girl in the picture insistently scoops another reporter with whom she is in love. He knows her tendencies so well that, when bits of a dead man's diary disappear from his room and reappear on the front page of a tabloid, he suspects her of stealing them. When murderous kidnappers capture the heroine, the picture blazes into melodrama that does not subside till bevies of police have secured her release. The final shot is typical: Linda Watkins excusing herself from the table at which she is lunching with James Dunn in order to telephone an incredibly elliptical summary...
...Gold Coast 'Juniors' will render "Would You Like to Take a Walk?", and "Alexander's Rag Time Band." Following a novel feature. "The Pyorrhean Sorority," the Vocal Club will reappear to sing "Heidelberg" and "Australia...