Word: obsessional
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Is there any way to call the attention of the authors of fiction to an obsession that often destroys the readability of their stories?
The portraits of the six witnesses who bought eels from Vanzetti on December 24, and the three eminent men who formed the Lowell Committee, are all executed in the same monotone. Only in the lupine eye of Vanzetti, and the good natured face of Governor Fuller does the artist reveal...
Told that this explanation made no difference, Dr. Gorgulov tried again. "A mystic force armed my hand," said he. "I had no reason at all to kill President Doumer. On the train from Monte Carlo to Paris I struggled against my idea of committing the crime. I prayed, even on...
The Crowd Roars (Warner). Having recorded the buzzing of airplanes, the rattle of gangster pistols, the slow thunder of artillery, the drumming of horses' hoofs, the squealing of police sirens and other disturbing decibels, it was time for the cinema to investigate the uproars of the common motor car. In...
"Manchuria!" he chuckled. "Hee, hee. hee-why, we wouldn't take Manchuria as a gift! We'd have to look after all those 30,000,000 Chinese and feed them, heh. heh. Now the Chinese are a peaceful people. They're not warriors by any means and...