Word: straightforwardly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Women Who Give. Far from being, as the title indicates, a story of Society women on the rampage through gilded interiors, this is a straightforward story of Cape Cod fisher folk, presented with a wealth of detail. The foot of the daughter of a lighthouse keeper slips on the rocks. The wealthy father of a young man tries to keep his son from marrying the daughter who made the faux pas, and has him shanghaied. But youth will be served, especially with a storm to help (in bringing a reconciliation. It is a slightly haunting echo of Kingsley...
...pronounce the outcome a failure of the Administration is to falsify the fact. It was a triumph over inexpertness, maladroitness and mischievousness, in sound principle and in straightforward diplomacy, for Calvin Coolidge...
SIEGE-Samuel Hopkins Adams- Boni & Liveright ($2.00). What happens when a woman of the old type, representing authority and tradition, comes in contact with the new woman, straightforward, honest to her own standards, but determined to be controlled by the standards of no one else? Augusta Ruyland is the woman of the old type. She is the head of the Ruyland family. She controls the mill town of Habersham and all the Ruylands' interests there. She is a benevolent despot who gives her workmen better terms than union labor gets. But she is a despot- insistent upon having...
...college generation." Both of these young men are sensitive- artistic, well-bred. They spring from more or less the same environment , and they are both, perhaps, Naturally, fond of over-sophistication. Yet, in a sense, these books are a hundred years apart. The Education of Peter is a simple, straightforward story of undergraduate life at Yale, with its "disappointments and hopes, its minute joys and sorrows. It is not Concerned With the difficult issues of Ilife, not with shifting sex moralities. The Green Bay Tree is cynical, incisive, a Stifle weary. It is the book of a young man steeped...
...standards of living and to interest adults in the problems of the modern youth," according to a statement made yesterday by the deputations committee, which is headed by A. D. Phillips '26. The aim is in no sense of the word to preach, but to present in a straightforward manner the importance of right living and right thinking...