Word: tinkers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...short time will the papers repose in a steel vault. At Glen Head, L. I., where he lives, Colonel Isham has ordered a fireproof room to be built where the relics may be kept. There he will prepare them for publication, probably with the help of Professor Chauncy Brewster Tinker, Yale authority on Boswell; perhaps also with the help of Geoffrey Scott, biographer of "Zelide" and translator of her stories. After publication the papers will be occasionally open to view, that scholars who wish to scrutinize the actual writing of a vain, foolish, careful, idolatrous and preposterous genius...
...without being allowed to die out entirely! The valleys, tablelands, and mountain peaks have the same convincing symmetry as nature herself. Edward Elgar, the eminent English composer, well says, "A modern composer, while listening to the C Minor Symphony or studying its design, feels as humble as a travelling tinker standing before that marvel of engineering skill, the bridge over the Firth of Forth...
...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...