Word: themes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Significance. Novelist Williamson always makes his plots go by putting them on the roller-skates of a social theme. The evolution of Jencic from peasant and Hunky (short for "Hungarian" - colloquial for Slav) to U. S. citizen and worker, is obvious and anything but original. But it is done so cheerfully, so sincerely, with such brave and decent effort at realism, that it far transcends what might be banality. It is a warm, vigorous, if somewhat naïve book by a writer who has known and taken seriously all kinds and conditions of his fellow men. The Book...
Interview your grandmother on the results of the Eighteenth Amendment and write a 100-word theme on the benefits of Prohibition...
...theme is: what method of procedure is best adapted to translate the policy of naval reduction into a fixed agreement between the nations...
Peculiar was the newspaper treatment of the Graustein-Patton marriage. Here was surely a saga of romance without a trace of scandal. Here was modern Manhattan's version of the Prince and Cinderella-a syncopated setting for an ageless theme. Yet the story was announced (two months after the wedding) in Zit's Weekly, theatrical trade-paper. Later the tabloids carried it. But solid, standard papers-Times, World, Herald Tribune, Sim, Post-ignored the week's-and one of the year's-greatest human interest story...
...Album has certainly kept abreast of the times and though the list of variations on the theme of "depression upon leaving Harvard College" has been pretty well exhausted in bygone odes, hymns, and other poetic tributes there will always be a place for a publication which affords a handy reference book to College as I knew...