Word: formative
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This book should sell well because of its title, format, anonymity, style, story. Newly rich and resenting one of Husband Peter's infidelities, Patricia committed one herself, after drinking. Some time after she told him of it Peter threw her through a glass door and looking cold and hard went away with the virtuous Hilda. His reasons for making the break...
SWORDS AND ROSES-Joseph Hergesheimer-Knopf ($3.50) Author Hergesheimer's concept of the Civil War does not startle. He employs no impelling format such as Stephen Vincent Benet's in John Brown's Body. In his graceful manner he merely fashions what his publishers are pleased to call belles lettres. In spite of this he commands a host of readers. Sensitive to nuances of a bygone age, he distills the essence of proverbial Southern romance, imprisons it in luxuriant prose: "The deep South, like a conservatory, was sweet with flowers. The isolated burial grounds, approached by avenues...
...first six months of 1929 Liberty guarantees a net paid circulation of 1,750,000; for the second six months 2,000,000. Bigger circulation means bigger paper bills; but the smaller page means smaller page bills; hence Liberty chooses a convenient moment for its change in format. "It will be the popular size," believes Liberty. "There is less room to waste on the library table...
...young men in love. A 21st century substitute for Prometheus is Jeremy, rainmaker, who journeys to the rainmakers' convention. On the way the motorbus is stalled, and each passenger tells an inferior Canterbury tale (the title of the book is also from Chaucer). Distinction is reserved for the format of one tale: only those words are set down which Jeremy, dreaming of his love, happens to catch. Stripped of verbosity, the skeleton is a good model for conversational monologists...
...official opening of the fall rowing will start several days later, with a format meeting in the Smith Hall's Common Room. The Freshman crew aspirants will probably be called out a week later when the full list of University coaches will probably be announced...