Word: turgid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...When Linz, Austria, was surrendered intact at week's end, the Allies could plan to catalogue the contents of the huge Linz Museum built by Hitler in memory of his mother. The Mother Hitler memorial collection is probably heavy with mediocre German pictures reflecting Hitler's infallibly turgid taste...
There was plenty of trash in this torrent. But in the good mysteries there was good writing-considerably better than that in most current straight novels. The reading of mysteries and comics was no longer necessarily a sign of low literary taste. Turning away from the turgid, plotless "problem" novels of the 19303, both readers and critics were rediscovering the literary values of good storytelling...
...word of Joseph Henry Jackson* is literary law. Eastern publishers quote his reviews, publish almost any manuscript he recommends. This year his influence has swept over the Sierras with even more spectacular results than usual. Two current bestsellers are books that he plugged before publication. Joseph Pennell's turgid History of Rome Hanks (to date: 93,000 copies), and Kathleen Winsor's Forever Amber† (400,000 copies...
...free.) The last 100 miles was a race against time: as they neared the Bering Sea the ice began to creep up on them from the Yukon's freezing banks. In late September they left the river, and Indians guided the frail canoe through the last miles of turgid swampland, to the town of Bethel...
Last week the rival Don Giovanni came off. Despite a few first-rate voices, it resembled a turgid Italian antipasto rather than an exquisite Mozartian souffle. One of the first-rate voices, the Metropolitan Opera's great comic basso, Salvatore Baccaloni, summed it all up by saying: "It stank, if I say so myself." Said the critic of Novedades: "The performance could only be described as weird. Unfortunately, those who did not attend may have been misled by one of my distinguished colleagues who rushed into print Sunday morning stating that the performance could hardly be equaled at Covent...