Word: concoction
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...public adores freaks; it always will. And certain doting mothers will allow precocious performances of their offspring to beguile them into dragging the offspring before the journalistic spotlight. So, occasionally, some child will, through environment or training or whatnot, concoct verses to delight the critics. But critics are often guileless, often glad to enjoy novelty. The maternal conscience should keep more awake. For, after all, few poets of eleven can at thirty survive the reading of their earliest verse. If they can they are not poets...
...PRINCESS-Julian Street - Doubleday Page ($2.00). When you know that Booth Tarkington is one of his major literary heroes, you know Author Street for a kindly, unpretentious person. When you know that he devotes months to the perfection of a type of story that most Saturday Evening Post writers concoct in a fortnight, you add conscience to his qualities. It is thus that you find him, and have pleasure in his work-a shrewd, painstaking etcher of his fellows, who dilutes the acid of irony with the milk of human kindness...
...almost universally in a vein to create the hostile public opinion by which juries are so easily swayed. The "New York Times" even states that Chapman's diabolically superhuman mind has, since his capture, mastered criminal law so thoroughly that he is now directing his own defense, and will concoct the subtle lies that will be stated in his favor--and so on. Aside from the ethics of such propaganda, the fact of its existence, is a telling commentary on the American jury system...
...Tokyo, 25,000 people assembled to hear fiery speeches and concoct "hate" resolutions. The following resolutions were approved by Kokumin Taibeikai, an organization devoted to fostering anti-American sentiment...
...writers to cast their eyes backward at the glorious work which was being produced half a century ago. The public cries for bread, he declares, and in return England's young modernists are giving them literary stones. Prose, writers turn out drab, boorish novels, and pseudo poets concoct yards and yards of verse, written "with one eye on Mammon and the other on the Charwoman's Elastic sided Boots". All that remains of a splendid past is an attenuated Hardy in the flesh, and faint memories of Francis Thompson and Swinburne...