Word: villainye
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As the mongoose loathes the cobra, as the herring fears the shark, as the flapper dodges "lectures," so do editors shun the machinations of a species whose villainy is (to editors) as plain as the nose on your face and as hard to clap your eyes on. This species was...
Significance. Since it is a graceless business to cast aspersion at the work of one so justly honored as the author of this novel, it may be said that the book teems with action. Like a disorderly street seen from a window, cobbled with yellow faces, it teems; adventures shoulder...
Captain January. Baby Peggy's public is composed of persons with an unbounded capacity for "cunningness" in other people's children. If you can revel for hours in childish winsomeness, even when it is faintly selfconscious, and still long to kiss "the little darling" goodnight before she scampers upstairs to...
"Of this man ... I will say little; the subject presents few attractions; and I, gentlemen, am not the man nor are you, gentlemen the men to delight in the contemplation of revolting heartlessness and systematic villainy. It is difficult to smile with an aching heart?it is ill jesting when...
In a world so basely consecrated to the truth, Fiction (which is the art of lying) is still at least a semi-honorable profession. It is, because it makes a puissant defense, saying: "I make a hero, and my reader imagines all my hero's virtues to himself. I make...