Word: self
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...authoritative service to the Womanhood of America" can have as its policy, If it make's exciting advertising and builds the circulation-go the limit? Is it possible that Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis, who refuses to allow cigaret and patent medicine advertisements in his magazines, can sanction suggestive self-advertising by his ladies' journal? Can it be that an apostle of printed probity will now tempt the public with pawky promises...
...daughter fell ill. He went home, was jailed. A synopsis of future chapters in Indiana's biggest excitement in months, at the bottom of which lies war between the friends and foes of Prohibition, will doubtless include further encounters between an outrageously outspoken journalist and a spokesman of self-righteousness...
...foil of respectability. They assist Jill's faithful airedale, Chips, in keeping her wholesome and girl-scoutish. Doreen finally goes off with a Latin-American. Jack makes a hash of his suicide, thereafter "awakening." With devoted Jill by his side he starts back up the hill of self-support to fetch a pail of the water of self-respect. ... Author Delafield writes well up to her pretensions, which are neither large nor small...
...compensate for lack of fresh material. In the first place there is the Countess herself, Madame de Lamouderie, who bears the distinction of being the most despicable character in the story and also the most interesting. In contrast to the other people, all of whom are hell bent for self sacrifice, she is delightful--which is probably what Mrs. de Selincourt intended her to be, thus allowing gentility to defeat villainy...
...plot more clear--they do not mark the fundamental difference between Mr. Robinson and his predecessors. Both Malory and the earlier writers tell the story in terms of action; Mr. Robinson in terms of reflection. What they describe, he attempts to explain. In a word, his characters are self-conscious, fully aware of their situation and continually discussing it (the greater part of the poem consists of conversation) they are not the "possessed" lovers, consumed by a passion they do not attempt to understand, of the medieval story-tellers...