Word: flashier
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pattern of a happy ending with marriage or its promise, and three others salute the beginnings of romance in their last sentences. The favorite story of Post writers is that of an inconspicuous worthy who is pushed around at first, finally comes out on top, usually triumphing over some flashier rival in the process. They tell it expertly, with no waste motions, sometimes with humor, frequently with a good deal of technical information thrown in-about steel mills, prize fights, greyhound racing, navigation. Except for Thomas Wolfe's story of racial conflict, The Child by Tiger, and Walter Edmonds...
...Biographer McCormick quotes his hero's unheroic remark with Yankee pride, proceeds to argue that Grant was the greatest soldier of them all. Grant's military genius, thinks the publisher of the Chicago Tribune, has never had its due; his reputation has been unjustly overshadowed by the flashier fame of soldiers he defeated-or could have. Says his biographer: "It is time that we repudiate these servile Americans, time that we no longer allow an American general who in four years commanded forces ranging in size from one thousand to one million men. who was never defeated...
...play, "The House of Connolly" as the movie "Carolina", will deal informally with some of the problems of the dramatist who works with material unusual to the stage. He covers a wide range of subject matter, from his own special milieu, the folk-play of South Carolina to the flashier contributions of the silver screen...
...three long short stories in Women Against Men are potent comments on a moot question: Is a hard world harder for women than for men? ¶Narrator of the first story' is Fanny, a shy, embittered woman whose career (she is a writer) is overshadowed by the much flashier success of an old girlhood friend, Victoria., who uses herself as material for love-affairs, her affairs as material for her best-selling books. Victoria is gross, cynical, shrewd; somehow her daughter turns out to be the opposite. She soon sees through her mother, takes her affection to Fanny. When...