Word: vigor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...plot, pointing no moral, it is simply a contemporary pageant of ignorance masquerading as "smartness," bigotry as uprightness, mob violence as morality, pleasure as the unpardonable sin, among isolated people whose surroundings seem to have become a spiritual wasteland, stunting and evaporating in them all but their physical vigor, malicious wit and crudest humanities. Scores of characters crowd the stage, each closely observed in real life's unmistakable habiliments, from the principals clear down to Schallburger, the labor organizer, and Sim Pratt, slick soda-jerker. There are smashing scenes, but toward the end the cast gets completely...
...becoming a political correspondent on the old Chicago Record-Herald, and later an assistant to Illinois' Secretary of State at Springfield, what time (1893-97) he tutored in law. Then he went to Ohio, passed its bar requirements and began practicing in Toledo. That town welcomed his vigor and independence, soon (1905) electing him mayor over four other candidates and re-electing him in three successive elections. Then he refused renomination and settled to pursue his literary work, began in 1902. In 1912, he added to his list of seven published stories and essays, The Fall Guy, an interpretation...
...scope and vigor of those activities there has seemingly been another, even more potent inspiration. Perhaps it was the fading tradition of successful Cornelius I, which high-minded, highstrung Cornelius IV sought to regarnish, revitalize. Or perhaps his wife had something to do with it. Rachel Littleton came of no effete patroon line, though she did not mind marrying into one. Her father, Martin Wilie Littleton, is a lawyer of the very first rank and a self-made man every inch of the way. How much insistence and assistance from her lay behind young Vanderbilt's break from Hearst...
...Thomas presumably rotates in his sepulchre during a lively scene wherein the Virgin Queen's bailiffs attempt to arrest Jack, knock him senseless, and are then set upon by Kate with such vigor that she is eventually overpowered in a state described as "mother naked...
...Farnol--and anyone will agree who has read his earlier works--has done much better than this. He has apparently lost the flair and vigor of "The Broad Highway" even of "Peregrine's Progress", and the book suffers from the absence of that vitality. True there is Jessamy Todd, the Methodist-pugilist, and an occasional character of the Farnol tradition--which is the Dickens tradition-but they are wraiths compared with the coves he used to draw. A certain dashing style and a gallant exuberance of spirits is necessary for success in the kind of novel Mr. Farnol enjoys writing...