Word: woven
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...poets, the 200-odd austere epitaphs of Spoon River were more than an expression of honest and fruitful defiance. They seemed to prove that the common stuff of U. S. backyard existence, the daily labors, the aspirations, even the graceless material of small-town gossip and slander, could be woven into a poetic pattern that need not lack dignity and significance...
...yellow gold open face pocket watch, crystal broken, movement No. 29716177, case No. 7875127, inscribed inside of case Sam Talmadge from Mother June 1927," with yellow woven chain attached, and gold fraternity pin marked A. U. A. 1902, Harvard, marked S. M. Talmadge 1934, and the reverse end of the chain a steel tape measure...
Before the picture is half over, however, one great fault makes itself all too plainly evident, a fault which probably could not be avoided in any dramatization of the book, and which, in itself, is not serious. That criticism is that the several minor plots woven into the tale have to be treated so briefly that they lose much of their meaning, seeming, in fact, just a bit ridiculous. They have a tendency, in addition, to give the whole the appearance of having been rather sketchily and loosely thrown together. Much of the depth of the story, as experienced...
...Budapest graceful Mrs. Simpson startled Hungarians with a dinner coat of multi-colored woven and spun glass, danced the Gypsy Czardas with H. R. H., a single enormous diamond sparkling in her hair...
...Woven into the fabric of complex New York City is the scarlet thread of bastardy which Dr. Ruth Reed of Indiana University has been unraveling for three years. Last week she reached a point where she could tell the metropolis just what sort of women bear bastards...