Word: snatchers
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Benjamin's slightly cynical little allegory, "A Vocational Trilogy," suggests that man has too much pride, or perhaps is too foolish, to admit failure, and will cheerfully repeat his mistakes. "The Crimson Stain," by Mr. Burman, is a grim and hardly a convincing story of a penitent grave-snatcher. The same writer returns to the charge with "The Doctor from Spain." This time he develops an entertaining tale of the adventure of a pretended doctor; after the denouement he seems rather uncertain how to end his story. Mr. Parson has allowed himself hardly enough room, in "Captain Kidd and Crew...
...episodic sketch by Mr. Nathan, certainly in lighter vein, but well characterized and constructed with better sense of dramatic values than the same writer's dialogue, "The Coward." In this the blindness of Peggy is forced, and Harry's use of brandy too like the conclusion of "The Cradle Snatcher" in a recent McClure's. The setting is described with more elaboration than a reader cares...