Word: taleish
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...those short stories (which won her one Guggenheim Award and three O. Henry Memorial Awards, as well as distinguished critical praise), Author Welty showed that she could envision and remodel men & women in such a way that when they appeared in her pages-clothed in a fairy-taleish, often brilliant prose-they were fascinating and had a kind of queer vitality, but were not much like anything on earth. Delta Wedding, which is Author Welty's first novel, is likely to provoke in readers the same old mixture of puzzlement over the odd people in it and respect...
...popular (e. g., W. H. Hudson's Green Mansions) are laid in a realistic setting no naturalist could carp at. Dr. Gion's scene is a modern town, presumably German; its characters do not pretend to be anything but flesh & blood, but its effect is definitely fairy-taleish. A quiet book, of oldfashioned, deferential sentiment and gentle resignation, it should appeal to readers who want a change from "real life...
...commencement officers and committees with the following results: Master of Ceremonies. J. M. Colt; Class Orator, G. B. Stockton: Class Historian, G. E. Harris; Class Poet, J. E. Jenkins: Class Prophet, D. Boaner; Presentation Orator, J. B. Pitney; Washington's Birthday Orator, A. C. M. Azoy: Class Debater, F. Taleish. The members of the Class Ode Committee Class Day Committee. Nassau Herald Committee, and Class Memorial Committee were also chosen...
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