Word: scalawag
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Following hard on the heels of the four long turgid romances that make up The Berries Chronicle, Hugh Walpole's new novel reverts to his lighter vein. A Modern Comedy he calls this yarn of a present-day scalawag who, with the manners of Prince Charming and the soul of a snapping turtle, is the black sheep of a gentle English family. Author Walpole, who has a good word for everybody, seems to like even his own rogues. But most readers will have little sympathy with Captain Nicholas. He does not rise to the stature of a dark brooding Barry...
...Great I Am, a thinly veiled, highly colored biography of the late Publisher Bonfils. Author of The Great I Am, Lou Goldberg, promptly reminded Louis Levand that when Bonfils had published a serial, a rival paper had distributed free copies of the book. Although he appears as a scalawag in The Great I Am, Louis Levand gaily ordered 200 copies of the book, turned them over to Hinkel & Co. which put them on sale...
Samuel Mason had an honorable past: he had served in the Continental Army, not without distinction, afterwards became a justice of the peace. But his daughter eloped with a scalawag and Mason's career started with his son-in-law's murder. Almost up to the end he kept his pose of being a respectable, peaceable man, but robbers in those days had to be killers. To make sure he got the credit, Mason would scrawl his signature in his victim's blood...
...almost excessively well-ordered home of George Marden. English country gentleman, comes Mr. Pim, a gentle, absent-minded old man. seeking a letter of introduction. He gets it and ambles off, leaving the household in ruins. For Olivia, George's wife, has been married before, to a scalawag whose fraudulent stock-company transactions finally landed him in an Australian jail. Five years after his reported death, she married her second husband. But Mr. Pim says he has just come from Australia on the same boat with her first. George is horrorstruck. His love for Olivia is solid and settled...
...Norwegian Treasury will also defray the expenses of Fru Anderson's return (triumphal it is hoped) to Oslo. Public sentiment there holds that too long have scalawag husbands found it comparatively easy to leave their faithful wives stranded in Norway while they revel in what one Oslo editor called last week "the easy prosperity and dissolute high life of the States...