Word: splendid
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...splendid delineation of life and character is a purpose of novel-making (and the Editor of the Bookshelf is not going to say it is the purpose) Santayana's effort has succeeded completely. It is the greatest American book, in the reviewer's opinion, since The Education of Henry Adams, and perhaps the greatest American novel since Mark Twain and Henry James...
...best known picture magazine in Europe, France's L'Illustration, is famed for its handsome four-color reproductions of Old Masters. Readers flipping through an issue two months ago came upon what at first glance looked like a splendid reproduction of Raphael's famed La Belle Jardiniere, now in the Louvre. A second glance shot eyebrows high. The Virgin Mary was feeding the infant Jesus from a modern nursing bottle, while at her knee the infant St. John looked on hungrily. The whole parody was an advertisement for Nestlé's baby food. A line...
...closely knit. The reason for his deed--the salvation from the streets of a woman he loved--and the horror of his remorse, which spends the blood money in wanton and maddened drunken roistering, are not quite boldly enough emphasized. But that is a retrospective fault. It is a splendid play, and McLaglen is excellent. Margot Grahame and Heather Angel lend tearful vividity to the general gloom. All in all, it is not hard to understand the extraordinary acclaim given this picture last year by professional and popular critics alike...
...Tercentenary to procure money. Already two million dollars have rolled in for the Graduate School of Public Administration, five hundred thousand for a Roving Professorship, twenty-five thousand for a National Scholarship. So we do not for a minute take exception even to the cost of these splendid ideas...
...comfortable but not wealthy Teetors, to whom Ralph was born 45 years ago in small Hagerstown, Ind., soon saw that the boy's blindness was not going to hamper him anymore than he could possibly help. Every day he ran to & from grade school where he got splendid marks. At the University of Pennsylvania he got his B. S. without difficulty. Because he was sensitive about his affliction and hated to accept help, he learned to do almost everything for himself...