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What saved Lewis from becoming a bore was his love for the American scene, and his self-perception. In an obituary he once composed for himself, he described Sinclair Lewis as "a cheerful pathologist, exposing the clichés and sentimentalities of his day"-and then added: "It is evident that Mr. Lewis smote . . . sentimentality because he knew himself to be, at heart, a sentimentalist...
...autopsy had revealed that Virginia Morton had died in the night of a heart attack and that her body bore no signs of strangulation. It was the opinion of the examiner that the defendant had never brought himself to commit the deed he thought he remembered. Said the judge: "You are free...
Suddenly, like the Red Sea parting before the Israelites,the noisy crowd opened. Through a forest of waving palm branches, an open car bore a husky black man with fine-sculptured lips, melancholy eyes and a halo of frizzy black hair. The Right Honorable Kwame Nkrumah (pronounced En-kroom-ah), Bachelor of Divinity, Master of Arts, Doctor of Law and Prime Minister of the Gold Coast, waved a white handkerchief to his countrymen as they fought to touch the hem of his tunic. Then, as the band hit the groove, he jigged his broad shoulders in time to the whirling...
...Acting Senior Tutor of Dunster House did not assume office--he was carried in feet first. A group of students picked him up, bore him into his official residence, and deposited him on the vestibule with a loud bump. Since then, Dunster men have overrun his place, arranging his furniture, and drinking his excellent sherry. And although Carroll F. "Stan" Miles is heard to complain that his comfortable quarters have become a Central Terminal, everybody knows he loves...
...Mary Roberts Rinehart & Avery Hopwood) is 33 years old-a bearded oldster among thrillers. But though it does its hissing through false teeth and glares from a glass eye, it is still strangely animate-a good deal of a mess, but only now & then a bore...