Word: sayed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bleeds. ... I do not like to come scot-free when friends of mine in the same car are injured. Besides, a great many duties devolve upon the member of the party who is not lacerated. I hailed the passing limousines with hoarse cries of 'Hospital!' and I must say there is no great congestion of Samaritans in Central Avenue...
...brilliant light upon his characters and illustrates them through and through, while at the same time, he handles the old, and unfortunately often thread-bare, stories with an artistic delicacy that breathes into them a new life. In short "Brother Saul," lives--and that's the best one can say for any book...
...other hand the Floating University did have its shortcomings. No new venture is ever a 100 per cent success. Discipline was weak, we are told, and there were too many students who were only interested in having a good time; the food they say was not always good, and the ship was crowded; there were divisions of authority and petty squabblings among the leaders which lost the respect of the student body. None of these faults ought to be repeated, and all of them can be remedied. Indeed the plans for this fall of the Floating University Aurania seem...
THIS is a book that should please Mr. Williams' Saturday Evening Post readers. This, however, is as far as the book will go, for Mr. Williams, indeed, is your true Saturday Evening Post author, and such he always will be. Unfortunately, I say, because at times he rises to a certain height. His descriptions of the Maine countryside are better than the usual pretty twitterings spent on that subject, and, better still, he has breathed the breath of life into his rustic heroine, and really evolved a figure with the classic serenity of a modern Ceres...
...great boon. What if it did ruin the author's reputation as a fisherman? Although "Fishing with a Fly" and "Revisiting a River" contain the same charm, the same dry humor and lucid beautiful prose, they can not surpass this defense of the amateur fisherman. Why, I can not say, for such a paragraph as this lacks nothing...