Word: seldom
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...crust of monotonous, disorganized narative--it is impossible to pass soberly by the time when the boiler burst and killed fourteen preachers, while the only people saved on the boat were the abandoned souls who were playing roulette in the barber shop under Mr. Devol's chaperonage. But one seldom meets anything else to match this. It is a crime against the gods of high romance for so matchless a string of yarns to be so drably treated
THERE is a broad highway in the life of every man, a romance-strewn avenue of happiness. But seldom does anyone in this age of mechanics and materialism dare to remain long on his particular highway. It is much safer and far more profitable to stand on the curb and sell motor cars or lead pencils. So only in the evenings by the hearth fire when the world of skyscrapers and tabloid newspapers and directors' meetings is obscured by thick curtains and a desire for rest and refreshment does courage come--vicarious courage, of course--and the world worn modern...
...firing of bon-mots that whiz like shells by night but look like duds in the morning. Caroline, the female cad of this chronicle, is said to have served Love, "the capricious boy who makes bedfellows of us all." Another young lady is directly addressed by a term seldom heard outside the dogshow. If you are of a cheerful cast, however, you cannot but recognize much mother wit among the refuse, a native tang in the bawdy breeze. The story: the leggy daughter of a long line of muddling-through country gentlemen embraces higher education, marries an elfish gentleman...
...charge of baseball at Harvard, and the fact that the team has been severely handicapped in its early games this year by lack of practice before the trip. While these southern teams have sometimes played as many as ten games before they meet Harvard, the University team has seldom been fortunate enough to have been cut of doors for more than a week or ten days. This has made it advisable that the week in southern territory be devoted chiefly to practice...
...four additions to the series here listed illustrate this decline. Only one of the four, Ouroboros, is of compelling interest and originality. In Lycurgus, Mr. Haynes endeavors to write for the laity but waxes excessively technical and seldom escapes his insular British point of view. His style is unrelieved by the figures and crispness that have become part of the "Today and Tomorrow" tradition. He moves solemnly through a thicket of statutory references to the conclusions, neither of them unique, that society needs to simplify and codify its laws, that individual liberty is vanishing in the face of collectivist economic...