Word: sprite
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...somewhat allayed by contradictory publicity. In the third-grade of an elementary prison school, two men heralded by the press as master minds are for the first time becoming proficient in the three "R's". After this denouement, people may even believe that the radio burglar is not a sprite akin to static, but only a moron in need of a shave
...proprietor of the puppet show, an Italian with a heart as big as an ox, and perhaps a head of the same quality, marries an elfin, wistful sprite of a wife a few minutes before charging off to war. On his return, he is deaf from the conflict, enabling his wife to carry on her languishing conversations with her ad interim lover...
...story goes: Selina Peake, sprite of poverty, married Pervus De Jong, Illinois potato man. No amount of grubbing could deaden Selina. After years of it, she could still stick radishes behind her ear and dance for Dirk, her boy, only "so big." Dirk grew up and trailed off into a dull love-jam involving a nice girl and a naughtyish one. Also, Selina, old and bent, peddled her potatoes on Prairie Avenue, Chicago...
Perhaps it is all for the best, since the particular sprite in question has been misbehaving. But we cannot refrain from daring Dr. Prince to read James Whitcomb Riley in the midst of his bells and wires and powders some dark night...
...final choice is as wise, as it must have been, difficult. "Each in His Generation", by Maxwell Stretchers Burt, published first in Scribbler's Magazine, is undoubtedly and understanding depiction of real people, one that grasps the attention of the reader in sprite of himself. "Contact" by Frances Noyes Hart less certainly deserves its high rating, but, at the same time, the motive that actuated its selection, is clear. It is a story of the spiritualistic outgrowth of the war, highly imaginative, but more than slightly difficult to understand...