Word: swifts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...process of creating a masterpiece onerous. Take Joseph Conrad, for example, who made a statement on his arrival here, or was so quoted, that he had never learned to enjoy writing. But the raconteur, whose one guide is a brilliant imagination who lets his only guide be the swift telling of a tale of life, love, mystery and the complications along the side lines. That must be real...
Joseph Husband graduated from Harvard in 1908. He was one of those rare souls who was at one time an editor of the CRIMSON, the Lampoon, and Mother Advocate, so he really knows whereof he speaks when he writes about Harvard. So much for local color. The action is swift and interesting. The story is of a scion of an old New England family who expects the world to bow down and worship his blue blood. He manages to stay in Harvard just about a year and a half. Then, after a painful scene in University 4, he goes west...
...cause for alarm, and a long period of prosperity ahead. Charles M. Schwab is cheerful, but feels it necessary to caution business men against overoptimism. Charles E. Mitchell, president of the National City Bank, Manhattan, recognizes present prosperity, but warns against the dangers of rising costs produced by over-swift expansion. Much the same position was taken by the U. S. Department of Commerce in a recent bulletin. In the case of the stock market, J. L. Livermore, noted operator, is more pessimistic. He points out the large amounts of undigested securities now on the market...
...motives it used an obscene word it comes under the law. The book is not to be judged as a whole but shall be condemned for a single passage out of its context. In one fell stroke this clause would outlaw the Bible, Shakespeare, the Greek and Roman classics, Swift, Chaucer, the whole of Restoration comedy, Milton, Fielding, Voltaire, Flaubert, Goethe, Balzac, the writings of the early Christian fathers, Martin Luther, the Encyclopedia Britannica and the dictionary...
FOUR OF A KIND?J. P. Marquand ?Scribner's ($1.75). This volume is made up of four swift-moving, active, unpretentious tales. They are a little longer than short stories, not long enough to be called novels. Their chief merit rests in the young author's vigor of presentation, his quick eye for externals, a certain freshness of viewpoint. One of the four is concerned with a prizefighter; another with a debutante; the third story is set in an advertising office; the last is a tale of horses and the riding thereof...