Word: underground
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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WILD ASSES-James G. Dunton- Small, Maynard ($2.00). Mr Dunton an immature Harvard graduate, smudges painfully. He has a turgid mind, a high-school style, scant humor, literary myopia. Concentrating on an underground foreground, he dimly depicts crass youths guzzling bad gin, shooting craps, reading cinema magazines, swapping low stories, frequenting dives and brothels, being obscurely restless and messing up their young lives generally. One logy character plays football, stays respectable, is a college success. Another (the author) achieves a half-baked perception of his contemporaries as Wild Asses and Blunderbrats, laboriously adduces the law of compensation to flappers...
...cast play it in a shuffling fashion. Edgar Stehli as the idealist, Walter Abel as the sergeant and Helen Freeman as the wife were like mushrooms nodding underground. The slight piece would make a shimmering curtain-raiser, if the cast were whipped up into playing it more smartly...
Here, obviously, is a problem for the psychoanalyst. Perhaps Mr. Dyar was unhappy in his chosen profession. Perhaps he tired of beetles and bugs, and longed for the higher, the nobler things of life--and dug underground tunnels. Or perhaps he felt a call down the long ages from his delving ancestor, Adam...
...after being appointed Prime Minister, MacDonald stayed with me at Edinburgh and was looking very ill. He had been in bad health because he was working so hard, and all the newspapers were speaking about how ill he was. And when I learned he was traveling about on the underground railway I felt he was taking too much exercise. For instance, on the night he went to the Pilgrims' dinner and delivered a fine speech, after he left the hall he had to take a train to Baker St., then out to near Chequers, where there...
...Hudson River. When they have come together there will be a new vehicular tunnel from Manhattan to New Jersey. The moment of their marriage is, for the engineers in charge, the zero hour. The latter will not know till then whether they have calculated perfectly this blind meeting underground or whether their plans have gone awry...