Word: tinkering
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...also a child of divorce, sees an opening and captures Ted. The scene shifts from Long Island to Paris to the Riviera. Jean and a Prince de Sfax, without illusion and without love for each other, enter into a business transaction solemnized by holy Catholic wedlock. Kitty arrives to tinker with the affections of the Prince, is divorced by Ted. At last, it seems that Ted and Jean will be able to rush off together into boundless happiness. But no-the moral ending requires that Jean and the Prince shall build anew. . . . It is entertaining fiction to read...
...tinker with the calendar is Professor Marvin's dearest hobby. He would like to supplant the Gregorian calendar with one of his own, which has 13 months to the year, four weeks to the month, and one extra day each year which would be a super-holiday. Such a calendar, said the able professor, would run until the year 17600 A. D. with no ill effects, except to deprive women of Leap Years, which will come only once each 600 years...
...Significance. You can, if you like, read Earl Tinker as Pen rod grown up. Laurence Ogle might be Willie Baxter, twice Seventeen. Or you can regard The Plutocrat as simply a new Tarkington vehicle full of up-to-date types, sent out parading to show people how they look. The balloon tires of burlesque protect anyone it runs over from being injured. Mme. Momoro is the chauffeuse, adroit aloof, intelligent, guiding the satire until it is time for her to step out of it a human being like the rest. Mr. Tarkington has written books of more uniform merit...
Ancient, exotic Africa works changes on all the travelers except Mme. Momoro. She has been there before. Ogle feels himself shrinking into a bitter, puny ineffectual as he drives with her over multicolored mountains and desert in the wake of the barbarian Tinker, whose progress, strewn with coin and prodigious solecisms, looms more arid more like that of a conquering potentate, a latter-day Hamilcar, a boisterous Caesar of a new Rome. His is an army of dollars; his retinue at home is 6,000 slaves. He scoffs at the native backwardness, ladens his wife with curios, silks, jewelry brought...
...audience with the Bey of Tunis, who probably wants, as everyone else does, some of his power, his money. Little Ogle, spared only by a check for vulgar cinema rights from the humiliation of hav-ing to borrow like the rest, abjures highbrow writing and is grateful for Olivia Tinker's hand in marriage. Mme. Momoro, hav-ing acquired what a devoted mother-of-the-world could for her son, departs in gratitude for Paris...