Word: style
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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PANDORA LIFTS THE LID?Christopher Morley and Don Marquis ? Doran ($2.00). After a few pages of this breathless tale of plotters, pirates, kidnappers, buried treasure, all reeled out in the hair-raising style of the most approved thrillers, you find yourself wondering: "What are these two scriveners up to now?" They seem to be straining every nerve to convince you that they are done with flippant irrelevancies, that this time they are in deadly earnest, writing a sure-enough mystery story. But after they have you almost convinced, their deft fingers begin poking around into the defenceless ribs...
...hardest and most timely hitter on the team and his fielding was brilliant. He has as fine a throwing arm as any University player in recent years. Bennett, the only man to play regularly in the same position all season, his well over 300 and fielded in sensational style. Booth's pitching record speaks for itself. He has everything that a pitcher needs--speed, control, curves, and a tantalizing slow ball. With an added year of experience and a University nine behind him he should help solve the Crimson pitching problem for three years to come...
...special article endeavoring to show the superfluity of wealth in the United States, the German journal printed a picture of the popular composer, and beside it, the picture of an imposing stone building in the Gothic style, purporting to be the palace which the tunemaker had built with the proceeds from his song success. On careful examination of this picture however, the building was found to be not a palace, but Cleveland Hall, one of the newer-buildings on the Princeton campus...
...countryside. Still, one can't have everything. For the present, Maine and New Hampshire will have to be content with the Ford truck and the famous Dramatic Club lighting. Perhaps another year will see the darkey, the cymbals, and the moving van playing up in the good old Ringling style...
...intensity. The reader, who cannot fully share the intensity either of authors or characters, is occasionally mystified as a result. A more external treatment for the bulk of the story should make the incidents more real. But the effect as the story stands is considerable, and the vigor of style deserves to be rewarded...