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...true lover of sport failed to get excited during the summer of 1925 when the newspapers were full of reports from the Mt. Everest Expedition which made two valiant attempts on the peak, and which lost two of its daring climbers, Mallory and Irvine. The world waited in breathless suspense for news of victory over the highest peak on the face of the earth: but instead came the news of defeat and death, the climax of the greatest known mountain expedition...
Dismissal of a huge extravaganza such as that which has held Chicago and, by radio and press, the entire nation spellbound, breathless and even unconscious, on the varying grounds that it was vulgar brutality, misdirected energy, or vapid inanity is begging the question in a conventional and entirely superficial fashion. The annual battle of the century may have been all of those things and many more, but since its power was so tremendous it can scarcely be passed off as just one of those things. The columns devoted to the private life, if they may be said to possess...
...myriad activities of knowing young Manhattanites. There are so many things to do and everything is done so quickly. To cover the assignment with the thoroughness and mimetic accuracy (but not the rancor) of a Sinclair Lewis, and at the same time to create four central characters of breathless reality, and a Dickensian hurly-burly of minor characters, and to keep them moving through their swift social traffic under their own power and in their right positions, requires a highly developed social instinct and something akin to literary genius. Socially and book-technically, Little Sins is a stunning performance...
...elucidated following an esthetic discourse on skyscrapers, of which the "stone and steel logic" is shown to be the reality behind the Uncle Shylock myth. The soul within the logic comes through in the eyes of Manhattan office workers who, it is well known, sometimes pause to gaze in breathless wonder at their ethereal city...
Second comings are less breathless than firsts. Mr. Arlen will not again encounter overt U. S. curiosity about his fancy waist and waistcoats, his night-club complexion, his affinities and affectations. He will not feel whole literary cocktail parties hanging on his lightest utterance, for it is well agreed now what he can and cannot say; what a pleasantly trite clam he is sometimes and how low he once brought bold Edna .Ferber in a single exchange of shots about looking feminine.** He will be permitted to enjoy himself and the U. S. this time and his real friends...