Word: strung
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...when Janet brings an affinity, Claudia Kitts, to live and work with her as a measure of self-defense and retaliation, Geoffrey introduces Edgar Fuller, who comes from Ohio or Oregon or somewhere to study elocution. The resulting mix-up, due entirely to the super-sensitiveness of the high strung, emotional people involved, is very amusing, and the whole plot is worked out in the cleverest style imaginable. The dialogue is witty and altogether up to date; scarcely a line fails to contribute something in the way of good-humored satire or fantastic nonsense...
...sons to keep your life extant." "In that case," remarked the patriarch, "your troubles are only just beginning . . ." and the story ends. The stories told by Kai Lung in his golden hours-fantastic, urbane, ironic, witty, courteous, magical- -these stories, naturally, are the substance of the book-jade emblems strung on a cord of Chinese silver, emblems marked with enchanted characters. The Significance. Kai Lung's Golden Hours is not a book to read at a sitting with breathless excite ment-it is a book to be dipped into and laid aside and dipped into again, and always with...
...tied up tne entire port. They resorted to violence. The result was that a million dollars was subscribed to fight the strike. "We went to the District Attorney," continued Captain Dollar, " and said to him: ' If something isn't done about this tomorrow evening you are going to be strung up to a telegraph pole.' There was never another man assaulted on the waterfront of San Francisco...
Gatti. This impresario is personally very interesting, a man whose grave dignity of face, figure, speech and manner is of public note. His intimates will tell you that his aloof reserve and unapproachableness, which qualities are so valuable in handling high-strung singers, are rooted in shyness, that the. man is a bookworm, with the sensitive timidity of his kind. Gatti began his life as a civil engineer. He has a first-rate mind, with all the shrewd subtlety that one attributes to Italians. He distinctly has the grand manner. It is this, perhaps, that makes him reluctant to talk...
...this has been loosely strung on an almost insignificant plot in an attempt to bring unity out of the mass of slightly related material. In this the author has failed. At first the reader is absorbed with the skillful presentation of the Vane household in New England, and one is pleased with the agreeable contrast in the portrayal of Michael Hare and his luxurious surroundings on Fifth Avenue. But it is easy to become impatient, as unimportant characters and situations are introduced merely for the purpose of creating new pictures, making it hard to follow a main thread through...