Word: congruous
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...problem. The character study "Truth is Stranger" involves definite types and fairly accurate dialect in a story which, true or not, might well have been sacrificed to one more plausible. Nature perhaps, but not art, "looks after her freaks." One doubts, too, whether "Kernham! Wow!" will strike many as congruous with a Maine handy man. A really charming narrative, allegedly autobiographical, in the manner of Rhibany, is Ben Lion Trynin's "Rosalie." The truth here to child life, the healthy human interest--even with comedy overdone--are indeed preferable to the usual run of undergraduate smartness and veneer...