Word: throughness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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"The next morning 'Nicholas Spicer' learned that two policemen were on the lookout for the man who struck Billy Patterson. . . . His distaste for legal proceedings caused him to lay the case before a friend at the hotel. . . . This gentleman engaged two newsboys to traverse the streets of the...
Mrs. Roosevelt is no warmonger. For years she has talked and worked for peace. Four years ago she argued that "the war idea is obsolete." Three years ago she still hoped Hitler would work out his destiny through the League. A year ago she expressed the hopeful wish that some...
Untrammeled life-long health (except for six babies and an attack of typhoid) is superadded to Eleanor Roosevelt's other capacities. She is out of bed at dawn's crack, doing setting-up exercises, swimming, or riding her old mare Dot. She eats like an ostrich: anything, everything...
WITH a sympathetic understanding of his characters that makes them vibrantly alive, John Steinbeck has created a book of sweeping movement and feeling. The Joads of Oklahoma start with "the little fellas Ruthie an' Winfiel'", and 'teenish Al, and Rose-of-Sharon and husband Connie, and twentyish Tom and Noah...
Mopping the cold sweat off his brow, he thumbed through the enclosures. One began "Would you marry rich?", another "U.S. filled with girls who are wealthy and single," still another gave descriptions and photographs of prospective spouses. "A vivacious blue-eyed blonde of 22 in search of her ideal. 5...