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Daddy is a well-to-do, eternally busy Kansas City attorney, who showers his wife with money as well as silence. Mrs. Bridge fills her days with abortive attempts to paint, to learn Spanish, to keep a scrapbook, to read. But her grasshopper attention is best held by gossipy lunches and club meetings. Novelist Connell seems to say that the very fatness of Midwestern life makes for fatheadedness in its citizens...
...Babbitt's righteous punch on the super-civilized nose of the author . . . The novel has a tone which says that, if you cannot swallow its exquisitely distilled sewage with a good appetite, then you'd better go back where you belong and read Elbert Hubbard's Scrapbook...
...Vice versa. You see, I've found the answer: the dorms are amplifying systems during the day; you can't walk through a library without some hornrimmed creature goggling from between the pages of a mouldy scrapbook at you; and this Square is palsy in motion; this place makes my flesh crawl right off my bones during...
...They've meant everything to my career thus far ... If you tell [newsfolk] the truth they try very hard not to hurt you with it ... When my daughter, Jayne Marie, now six, comes to an age when she will have problems, I'll hand her my scrapbook and say, 'This was your mother...
...outside the grounds for weeks. You, Sister Luke, saw risk and excitement arid preempted this for yourself. You never thought how a sister might later enjoy clipping a little item from the newspaper (which has already telephoned me for your name) to send home to Belgium for the family scrapbook . . . Charity in action is easy to give. It has witnesses. Everyone sees it. Everyone is touched by it. Even in the world, a visible act of charity singularizes the doer, often even brings fame of a sort. But charity in thought. Sister, that silent, invisible, unremitting love that always places...