Word: thinning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Henry Turnbull, the Rev. Hector's youngest, was thin, docile, an idiot to his family and the village. He ran errands, dug in the garden and walked, when not in demand, to South Egdon, for respite from mankind's puzzling beastliness. This he found in his only friend, Henry Neville, the South Egdon curate, a sickly ascetic who was hated by his flock because he did not bully them into religion as a proper curate should. Instead he forgave them their malice, an effrontery that he aggravated when he robbed them of the pleasure of stoning him to death...
...tell you the generations Of man are a ripple of thin fire burning Over a meadow, breeding out of itself; Itself, a momentary incandescence Lasting a long time, and we that blase Now, we are not that fire, for it leaves...
Such strong medicine as this requires bitter ingredients. These have not been faithfully furnished. Parts of the drama are heady, horrible. Parts of it are thin and tasteless. The author's name is Dan Totheroh. His ensuing chapters will be watched with interest. The acting was typical of a Greenwich Village production- some of it excellent, some of it shoddy...
Last week, on a day alive with thin blue air and gaiety, eight rowers of the University of Washington pulled in competition with eight rowers of the University of California. The shells slid like yellow-legged waterbugs over the shining surface of a Pacific estuary, at first close together, at the end separated by a gap as long as 15 boats. Small craft edged up, bellowed brassily, airplanes curvetted amid ice-cream clouds. Washington had won, had set a new course record...
...PIGS-A thin and amiable tale of young people on a farm, their fortune, their artless love affair...