Word: sayings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...main purpose of the compilers of this volume has been to give an mpetus to American literature. They have most certainly brought together a remarkable collection of literary efforts. But it is not within our scope here to attempt to analyses them. Suffice it to say that all manner of writers have been represented, and that all manner of tastes can be catered to from within the two covers...
...sympathy--one finds that justice has been a main chord. South and North, each has its turn--probably the reason both these sections of our country have acclaimed the book as a classic. A striking feature is the manner in which Benet handles such a wide field. One might say the war is dealt with in terms of various imaginary individuals and their reactions. This lends that personal touch which serves equally well as a main, solemn connecting thread through out the story and as a gripping bond with the reader. With all the many complications which might easily arise...
...Consequently the people are painted in rather brighter colors than strict realism allows, with its penchant for neutrals. The effects must be created quickly--partly because so many, almost too many, characters are introduced--and the characterization is more rapid, more intense, more dramatic than in the works of, say Sterne or Madge Kennedy. It is, moreover, very good on the whole, and few writers can produce a life-like image in so few words as can Mr. Cozzens. And in addition to being convincing, his people have the eminently desirable virtue of being amusing--the combination forming a nice...
Chemical students at Harvard are equipped this fall for the first time with a first rate building and adequate apparatus. Harvard men at last are able to say that their facilities for scientific investigation approximate in excellence their opportunities for the study of the humanities. It would be well to determine, however, if these facilities may by some means be made as available to the undergraduate as are such institutions for instance as the Widener Library. The iron bound regulations of Boylston Hall in regard to closing hours have for years been an inconvenience and in many cases a downright...
...pronounced by Nominee Smith. To some ears, some other Smith pronunciations are "foist" (first) "poisonally" (personally) "alcoholic content (alcoholic content) "comparable" (comparable). Nominee Hoover, as radio listeners have learned, seems to say "incomparable," "prerequisite," "pardner," "ammilerate" (ameliorate). *Robert Latham Owen, onetime (1907-25) Senator, Smith bolter (TIME...