Word: righte
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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STARTLING in the wrong direction necessitates an immediate right about face or a long journey and a difficult one across sterile fields. Ellis Parker Butler wrote "Pigs Is Pigs", a concession to a tasteless whim, and has continued along that road of supposed humor ever since...
...Tonio Kroeger" Knopf, New York, is a short novel, perhaps the best one Thomas Mann has ever written, certainly the one which hit most remarkably right into the center of all problems that vexed the younger generation of Germany at the beginning of this century, the generation which was morbidly inclined to believe that they were all decadents, and devoted to nothing but art for art's sake...
...centaur Nessus is galloping through a stream with Deianira on his back. He is holding with both hands the frightened woman, whose transparent white garments flutter in the wind. She is wrestling to get free from the grip of the centaur. To the right on the shore stands Hercules, stretching his bow ready to send an arrwo into the centaur. He is a nude athlete with intense 'tactile value,' the whole figure having the tension of a steel spring strained to the limit. The very extensive landscape which is dominated by the winding river, represents a view of the Arno...
...fifth inning with one man out, Connell of Pennsylvania singled to right and went to third when Thompson singled to the same place. With Cole at the plate, Connell executed the Squeeze play, and beat Barbee's throw to the plate, but Umpire Baltzel ruled that Cole was not in his box and Connell, therefore, had to go back to third. Connell came running in again on the next pitched ball, but this time Cole hit a foul tip that was just wide enough to escape Chauncey's ready glove. On the next ball, however, Connell's mighty efforts...
Donaghy, Crimson shortstop, hit the second ball pitched to deep center for a triple. Captain Tremper of Pennsylvania was over in right field and he just failed to reach...