Word: tonics
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...resent his "rise in the world," against old friends who feel insulted if they do not get inscribed copies of his books, but never acknowledge them if they do. But his clearest picture of the literary jungle is in his account of his first success, Nocturne, with the "tonic" letter it won from Shaw: "I found it a damned dismal book...
...hardest defensive drills of the year featured yesterday's practice of Coach Dick Harlow's Varsity gridders. For the second day in a row, Harlow kept the entire squad on the tackling dummies for almost half an hour, and more of the same tonic is in store for today...
...biggest fortune. By the time it has been established that she really is an heiress, W. C. Fields has had time to execute several of his most celebrated routines. He gets tangled up with a croquet set, makes a fox-terrier talk, sells five bottles of sassafras tonic to a distracted yokel who wants only one, delivers as a tagline the immortal motto: "Never give a sucker an even break...
...before he died the U. S. was proud of him. Even more than his Dictionary his famed blue-backed Speller (which sold nearly 100 million copies before it went out of use) knit U. S. dialects together into one more-or-less standard tongue, poured a patriotic iron tonic into the stomach of the adolescent nation...
Peter Neagoe writes about his fellow-Rumanians in English. Though his lan guage has a few traces of foreign accent it reads like a good translation. His stories, almost invariably peopled by simple characters, are simple, tonic, vivid. Earthy but not Scandinavian, he indulges in no metaphysical brooding. His sensibility is stoutly laced in by sense. Though he is a respecter of tragic facts he likes also the unbuttoned bellylaugh...