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...reader cannot help but be carried if he take any delight at all in apt phrases applied to gestures and expressions or if his sympathy responds to the semi-tragic aspects of homely irony. As a whole, however, "Tomorrow Morning" belongs to the class of modern biographical novels, clinging helplessly to chronology for their structure and unity that try, in a strained way, to reconcile the contradictions of life. Unwilling or unable suggest philosophical standards and apparently indisposed to endorse, with a whole heart, the futility of things, they feebly press the conclusion that solace lies only in the passing...
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...ways of the Anti-Saloon League and its subordinate organizations must be a never-ending delight to anyone interested in intrigue. Last week in Upsala College, New Jersey, there appeared one Lofton S. Wesley of the Intercollegiate Prohibition Association...
...woman can be either a bore, an embarrassment or a blessing. Or all three. Shirley Challoner, a blessing, would never have writ ten this book. Authoress Colby is sometimes tiresome, sometimes embarrassing, yet she created Shirley Challoner and the "green forest." The whole point of the book is to delight people who can understand that "Debussy is the wettest music ?passion done in silver point," and similar subtle apperceptions. Yet between subtlety and forced fancy even "understanding" readers will detect many a disheartening difference. The girl's face "banged shut." About babies: "There might be sky-blue ones...
...succession of human ontacts and exhibitions of ingenuity which suggests that the day of standardization in pay, promotion, and practice still lies in an indefinite future. In this adventurous outlook she has one definite bias; she has grown up with the modern advertising business and undoubtedly shares its delight in glamour...