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...Characterized by an English critic as "that rara avis, an autochthonous American author," she is most conveniently classified by negatives. Says the same critic: "The King Charles's head of psychoanalysis and experiment in genre does not keep continually turning up in her books as they do [sic] in those rather Mr. Dick-like compositions of Mr. Sherwood Anderson for instance." Unlike Sinclair Lewis, she does not bite her country's hand; unlike Edith Wharton (whose example influenced her early work) she casts no nostalgic backward glances toward Europe; unlike Ernest Hemingway, she carries no gnawing...
...recreates it in a new and more wonderful form which he has discovered." Hearstwriter Brisbane of the New York Evening Journal, stung to rage by a Picasso abstraction, reproduced it last fortnight, added, "You feel ashamed for the human race when you realize that stuff as this [sic] is actually shown and bought by people supposed to be sane...
...Through her Red Cross work, she is credited with having instituted the U. S. Army Nursing [sic] Corps during the Spanish-American War." Were this "credit" justified, I should be quick to accord it, but facts were these...
...Purcell-Jones, apparently another member of Britain's languid gentry, contributed a roomful of slightly improper drawings of ladies and gentlemen in fancy dress in which he combined the manners of Aubrey Beardsley, Botticelli, Benozzo Gozzoli and Florenz Ziegfeld. His pictures bore such titles as: La Chevalier (sic) de la Jarretière, Lady Woudnaught, Sir Adam Coudnaught, Odalisque, Lady Couch. Prince Henry and his cousin-countess showed views of France, Africa, Egypt and New York, painfully wrought...
...Ordinary workers of any color may hope in Russia to receive boundless benefits eventually, but today they do receive: 1) wages in rubles officially worth sic which will actually buy about what gc will buy in the U. S.; 2) employment at the extreme high tempo of the Five-Year Plan, calling for greatest possible exertion by every worker: 3) cards entitling the worker to buy at Government monopoly stores, if willing to stand for hours in line...