Word: brutish
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Colby contributes a tragedy of love and blood, called "Charlie." The hero is a brutish boxer led to ruin by "a all slim dark-haired figure of a girl" whom he murders in a terrific final melee. The story is so formidable that few would penetrate it. The style is excessive in adjectives, adverbs, "color." and bold bad phrasing--at times a debauchery of words. Yet the author gives hints of power...