Word: silken
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Mifflin ($2.00). If this title sounds acrimonious, one glance at its author's name will allay suspicion. Miss Repplier could not be disputatious if she would. Her essays are among the most polished, civilized, smooth-flowing products of contemporary pens. Her erudition is always so glossed over with silken-smooth phrasing that one does not at once compass its depth. In addition, she has a quick little poniard of deft humor, a keen sense of values...
...Twin silken petals...
...being" Grandfather Crumb, old, defeated, hopeless, ignored by the other Crumbs, but rising above them. Leda's defenses were being beaten down by the sheer gross weight of the Crumbs when Barnaby came. He was the divorced husband of Richmiel, and he came to take from her silken clutch their boy Oliver. It was inevitable that Leda should find in the imaginative nobility of Barnaby a possible release. And it was equally inevitable that Barnaby should find in the clear glass of Leda's sensitive beauty the reflection of his need. Richmiel, feline in her jealousies, refused...