Word: spinner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Nothing can any more be called impossible. The mirage of Ponce de Leon may be real after all, and a mere stop in a larger scheme. Daedalus and learus were myths until the Wright brothers clothed them in fact. And Julos Verne in his day was thought a spinner of idle fancies. Who knows but Karel Capek may prove a seer, and President Lowell realize his dream of "synthetic Freshmen...
...elevator. "Well," said he, "that human dynamo is upstairs waiting for you!" Human dynamo, Blasco Ibanez certainly proved to be. Dark, white-skinned, brisk, almost jerky in his movements, with hands which noticeably wear several jeweled rings and gesticulate in square, but expressive fashion, the great Spanish spinner of yarns is a perfect echo of the life he has led. He does not speak in English. I speak no Spanish, little French. He spoke in French and I understood. A friend put my questions...
...real self lies somewhere very deep within. He tends to speak in periods. His words, too, are gestures; this, however, is the world of make-believe and of romance. It is his world. He moves in it serenely and triumphantly. He is a giant of a novelist, a swift spinner of glowing tales, a man with a passion for accomplishment who has been endowed with sufficient vitality to pursue his images to their creation. Long life to him and his vigor...
...week, with a heavy volume of trading, although there were no signs from the industrial world of marked improvement for the immediate future. The oil situation looked better-with normalcy quite a way in the distance. The cotton shortage will probably curtail buying rather than enrich planter or spinner through high prices. The retail trade is too good to last, and is unusually dependent on the maintenance of very high industrial wages. The foreign situation grew more confused, accompanied by a sharp drop in sterling exchange. Only the building boom can be considered, from present prospects, as a real backlog...
This last fact seems to be true of the yarn-spinner. The writer who takes his trade seriously as art with a capital " A " finds the process of creating a masterpiece onerous. Take Joseph Conrad, for example, who made a statement on his arrival here, or was so quoted, that he had never learned to enjoy writing. But the raconteur, whose one guide is a brilliant imagination who lets his only guide be the swift telling of a tale of life, love, mystery and the complications along the side lines. That must be real...