Word: clutching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...most embittering to have a benevolent idea fail, and fail solely because the object of one's benevolence is too unworthy to appreciate what is being done for him. But at the same time, life would be tiresome without its setbacks. Instead of submitting to the fell clutch of circumstance, Sir Henry should call up his fighting spirit and try again. Generalities cannot be drawn from single cases...
...Life a two-page cartoon which struck terror into the heart of the observer. It depicted a hideous reptile crawling across the map of the U. S. Its tail was securely planted in San Francisco. Part of its belly burdened New York. One lugubrious paw had Chicago in its clutch, another Los Angeles. An outstretched limb had already grabbed Albany, the giant fore paw overshadowed Washington. Of the face of the beast there could be no question. It was the heavy-hanging face of William Randolph Hearst...
...thin a quatter of the book devoted to literachoor". He could already find some literature in the advertisements. There is poetry in the line "meaty marrowy oxtail joints" used to describe a well-known soup. A prose rhythm of unusual smoothness is discovered in an automobile advertisement. "The velvety clutch responds to the merest pressure. . . . The plant but positive gears engage silently". One nationally known electric firm prints well rounded essays to describe its product, and the Ann Sawyers and Well-Dressed Men gossip like Pepys and Evelyn...
...being" Grandfather Crumb, old, defeated, hopeless, ignored by the other Crumbs, but rising above them. Leda's defenses were being beaten down by the sheer gross weight of the Crumbs when Barnaby came. He was the divorced husband of Richmiel, and he came to take from her silken clutch their boy Oliver. It was inevitable that Leda should find in the imaginative nobility of Barnaby a possible release. And it was equally inevitable that Barnaby should find in the clear glass of Leda's sensitive beauty the reflection of his need. Richmiel, feline in her jealousies, refused...
Naturalness, drama, clean stories and the logical ending were named by Mr. Ince as the prime requisites of a good scenario. In speaking of the popular and customary "kiss and clutch" ending, Mr. Ince said, "If a story is sufficiently strong to warrant a departure from the usual ending we will find a way to give it a touch of ideality...