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Word: themes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...effect of the story is made, the theme is developed, as themes should be, entirely in action. A girl with every advantage of noble family, education, beauty, health, strength, physical skill, intellect, and emotional sensitiveness lives with the freedom of wealth and position in the most delightful places on the Continent and in America, associates with the most agreeable acquaintances, companions, and friends, . . and dies. And the reader, not the author, closes the book with the conviction that for Cerise D'Atree, and perhaps for all others, life is a futile and desperate thing painful to leave, but terrible...

Author: By G. H. Code ., | Title: CRIMSON BOOKSHELF | 4/12/1924 | See Source »

...effect of the story is made, the theme is developed as themes should be, entirely in action. A girl with every advantage of noble family, education, beauty, health, strength, practical skill, intellect, and emotional sensitiveness lives with the freedom of wealth and position in the most delightful places on the Continent and in America, associates with the most agreeable acquaintances, companions, and friends . . . and dies. And the reader, not the author, closes the book with the conviction that for Cerise D'Atree, and perhaps for all others, life is a futile and desperate thing painful to leave, but terrible...

Author: By G. H. Codk ., | Title: BOOKSHELF | 4/10/1924 | See Source »

...artist that he excels. His amazingly vivid and never trite phrasing makes the reader actually see the characters; his carefully constructed and cleverly told hits of action hold the reader with their nicety; and best of all, his delicacy keeps him within the bounds of decency, however immortal his theme may be. "The Gay Ones" is simply yet very well written, which cannot be said of many of the novels of today...

Author: By R. H. J., | Title: A STORY THAT DELIGHTS WITHOUT OFFENDING | 4/4/1924 | See Source »

...country. With the Marxian idea of class warfare he has as little sympathy as with the state socialism of the Germans and their imitators. And although he is aware of the condition of the mass of the people and is imbued with a desire to improve their lot, the theme of social injustice is very seldom on his lips...

Author: By F. A. O. s., | Title: MacDONALD: THE MAN OF TOMORROW | 3/14/1924 | See Source »

...Mencken that although it is theoretically possible for woman to possess real beauty, from an aesthetic point of view, she so rarely does that she is forced to rely, on the alternative attractions of intellect and understanding. Moreover, the writers of popular songs whose favorite theme is going home to Mother are legion; and certainly America's own Montague Glass would be awarded at the very least an Honorable Mention for "our Miss Cohen", who, it will be remembered, was "a perfect thirty...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "PLACE AUX VIELLES!" | 3/12/1924 | See Source »

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