Word: weak
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...into mere burlesque reveals in all its ridiculous solemnity the sentimentalism so dear to readers of the American Magazine and of American magazines in general. This is a convincing and pitiless exposure of sweetness and light. Mr. Oliver La Farge's "A White Man" builds up well to a weak climax; it is a good story but far from this author's best. The single book review, an appreciation by R. L. E. of Arthur Machen's "Hill of Dreams" slips easily into the category of distinguished criticism. With an enthusiasm that never becomes inarticulate or abstract in expression...
...difficulties of form, tangling the Swinburnian idea in a mass of involved constructions. Mr. Cozzens's "Two Arts" is a tar more competent piece of work, exhibiting the lyric smoothness we demand of modern sonneteers: it is unfortunate, however, that he had to employ a combination of two weak rhymes in his sextet. In his limpid classic fragment called "Separation", Mr. James Sherry Mangau gives us the poignant sensations of a lover deploring the absence of his Hawatian princess, whose sonorous name appropriately terminates the simple lyric...
None of the wave lengths will go above 600 meters, which will be appreciated by amateurs with weak receiving sets. The 540 Class A stations which now use the 360-meter length will be allowed to retain it, but new stations weaker than Class B must come into the 222-300 band. The Department of Commerce is enlarging its forces to cover the country in nine inspection districts and check the wave lengths of every station...
Last week the Freshmen were notably weak in the dashes, the hurdles, and in the hammer throw, but much work has been done by the coaches on the men in these events, and a great improvement should be shown. In the quarter, half, and mile races today, should gather a large number of points, since last week they made clean sweeps in all of these races without the assistance of the relay quartet...
IMPROMPTU-Elliot H. Paul--Knopf ($2.00). The author of that promising first novel Indelible, now living in Boston, here writes a novel of disillusionment and revolt, but without sensationalism or coarseness. The figure of the hero is weak and unsympathetic, but Mr. Paul manages the unpleasantness of his plot with reserve and pity. The story tells the history of a tormented and afraid young man who runs away to war, and returns, the victim of his weakness, to find his former sweetheart. For a time the girl supports him, but after much unhappiness he runs away again to join...