Word: skillfull
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Back in Switzerland in 1528 he swanked it about Basle in furs and velvets, bought a fine house for his wife and family, then returned to England in 1530. As far as is known it was the Tudor tycoon Thomas Cromwell (whose portrait by Holbein now hangs in Manhattan'...
For a first novel Miss Mitchell's is an astonishing four de force. It is easy to believe that she spent seven years in writing it. It was born to be a beat-seller and no one but could be glad that it is. Tremendonaly long, dealing with the period...
A TIME TO REMEMBER-Leane Zugsmith-Random House ($2.00). Skillful novel about a strike in a department store, complete with clear portraits of cashiers, shoe-salesmen, harassed employers, unwilling informers, unromanticized union leaders, weakened by a too simple picture of the daily routine of a large store.
Finally he succumbs to the infatuated, spoiled, neurotic and enchanting Irene who realizes that he loves her after he has cured one of her fits by sticking her, dressed, into a cold shower, on the ground that if he did not love her he could not have been so angry...
Girls' Dormitory is an intelligent exanimation of a first love too robust to be dissipated in the adolescent dreaming which initiated it. Skillful craftsmanship by all concerned eliminates the pitfall lurking in most stories of young girls in love with older men, i. e., that the hero will appear...