Word: strayed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Homeward Bound. Here is an excellent example of harmless diversion. The producer has selected a heavy-weather sea story, relieved it with stray breaks of sunlight in the form of love and comedy, given it over to the able playing of Thomas Meighan and Lila...
...force. They should appreciate the work that our pioneers have done. "For the 'bore' of 1850, the plow and hammer; for his sons, the pursuit of happiness." It is they who have laid the foundations for the present generation. Be sure, O present generation, that you do not stray too far from the "moral idealism" or these sturdy forebears who did not suffer from complexes and an overdoes of foreign literature...
...second set, however, the Engineers found their feet and, by picking up all the stray points which the Crimson players let slide, ran away with the honors by a 6-4 score...
...very nice neighborhood." Robert Cortes Holiday: "Mr. Tarkington seems to present himself as a rather playful neurologist. Something like a scientific interest may be discerned running through the collection." The Author. Booth Tarkington is one of the first representatives of the Hoosier school of fiction. His books rarely stray from scenes in the Middle West. His important books are: Monsieur Beaucaire, The Turmoil, Seventeen, The Gentleman from Indiana. He won the Pulitzer prize for the best American novel published in 1919 with The Magnificent Ambersons, and in 1922 with Alice Adams...
Humoresque. Mrs. Sarah Kantor slipped out into the darkness of the ghetto, leaving her husband, one son, and a stray dog asleep in one cot, her daughter in another, and her favorite son whimpering for a violin in another. A few minutes later she reappeared, triumphantly bearing a four-dollar violin...