Word: selma
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Touchy, redheaded Selma Temple was walking with her lover, Gardner Heath, when a fox hunt interrupted their peaceful afternoon. The fox passed near them and the girl "saw him trembling with exhaustion, his belly dragging close to earth his brush bemired. His strong claws pulled him up that slope, but the lithe body, weightless two hours ago, was now too heavy. . . . Now not even death could drive his weary body faster up that hill." As the dogs killed him the lovers began to quarrel, Selma protesting against the cruelty of hunters, Gardner impatient at her squeamishness. With this symbolic incident...
Since the entire book thus revolves around Selma, it is primarily of interest as a character study of a girl who hovers at the edge of a neurotic revulsion against the role of her sex. Raised in a commonplace, puritanical Iowa town, Selma thought one of her schoolmates was going to have a baby because a boy kissed her. In college she fell in love with an evangelist, became deeply religious, watched the unfolding of an ugly campus "romance" when an effeminate music teacher married to stop the gossip that was threatening his job. At home she saw a still...
...because they did not wish to be accused again, as they were in 1933, of acquitting an impeached judge because they were too lazy to listen to the evidence. Besides, the case against Judge Ritter had been presented with liveliness and ability by large, agile Representative Sam Hobbs of Selma, Ala., one of the three House prosecutors (TIME, March 16; April 20). Thus Senators settled down solemnly last week behind closed doors to discuss their verdict...
...HARVEST-Selma Lagerlof-Doubleday, Doran...
...ladies who can count their medals few can finger so many that ring true as Selma Lagerlöf (pronounced Lahgerlef). A Swede who, in spite of international temptations, has remained stoutly Scandinavian, she has won her country's Nobel Prize (1909) without the slightest implication of local favoritism. She has written not only an international classic for children (The Wonderful Adventures of Nils) but an international classic for grown-ups (The Ring of the Löwenskölds). She is one of those rare writers whose flavor is not spoiled by translation. And at 76 she remains...