Word: themes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...they appeared in his children, she now unfolds the more tragic influences of Norman Crowne as they animate his son and daughter. As these two are more tragic, they are more spectacular. Their bright uneven beauty sometimes begins to be a little unreal. But the construction of her theme, the way in which their mercurial doings are played against the less irregular pattern of the Frobishers outweighs and hides their unreality. The glow of "red sky at morning, shepherds' warning," pervades the pages of the book, rising to a sultry heat at noon, and sinking to the destined thunderstorm...
...leave school, his son to work through college. Edward Patterson gives up. He makes amends to his wife who resents his incipient affair with Ruth Ingraham, returns to insurance selling and normality. The result of this is a novel that proves little. Nevertheless, handicapped by the mediocrity of his theme, Author Webster, who as a novelist is no beginner, achieves a story which is characteristically well-built and worth reading...
...whole row rose en masse. "Next time, gentlemen, we will take up the further developments of the theme, tracing its influence on later civilization." And so the professors went...
...begin in October and eventually drool on into the month whose name they bear, have been the subject for many a long and vacuous dissertation. As topics for conversation they rival the tyranny of the Yard police and discussion of the current cinematic animadiversions. Extensive vocabularies have ornamented the theme; dire threats have furnished the motif. And consequent results of all this oratory have been, up to this time, entirely lacking...
...theme of the play revolves around the unpleasant complications which may arise from introducing a street-walker into the family circle--and it is difficult to conceive how such spicy material can produce such consummate boredom. This, however, it most successfully achieves...