Word: patterning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...LLANPEAR PATTERN-Francis B. Biddle-Scribner's ($2). Carl Llanfear, by heredity incapable of achieving his desired escape from the flypaper pattern of the Philadelphia Llanfears, nevertheless wriggles frantically to achieve his separation from the sticky glue of convention in which his innumerable and, to a reader, indistinguishable relatives are contentedly bogged. His marriage serves only to anchor him more deeply in the sticky golden marsh; mild affairs with other women are not sufficient to release him. Finally, even this rebellious but unsturdy member of the rich and quiet tribe lies down reluctantly with the others, forced to derive...
...first prize ($1,500) they awarded to a still life by Henri Matisse. Perhaps it was unfortunate that the highest honors should fall to a Frenchman whose name is a legend in modern painting; but the picture, in which great brilliant fruits and flowers coiled themselves into a pattern like the graph of a sunset, made the award imperative...
...fact simplicity. In this case, it is a story of four maiden sisters of the heavily-upholstered convention-corseted '90s. Two of them have secretly wed the same rascal. One is recognized as wife; the other bears a bastard son. This black thread in their life's pattern is accompanied by the incessant nagging of the wizened humpbacked sister. In the spinsters' parlor-desert their scandal festers almost to the end. The dreariness of their tragedy is incongruously shattered by Marie Carroll, who, as the worm-eaten, twisted sister, insists upon breaking forth into pert, lovable antics...
...cool air that smelled a little of horses and saddles, pranced off the track. A stable man leading him rubbed the horse's nose, then looked down at his hand quickly. It was covered with blood. Dice, suddenly tired, stood stiffly while bright red drops made a pattern on the damp turf. Four hours later, blood still pouring out of his nose from a lung hemorrhage, Dice died...
...AMERICAN CIVILIZATION (2 vol.)-Charles A. & Mary R. Beard?Macmillan ($12.50). The history of a people burns in tiny villages, in towns, in lonely farms. Sparks and flames glitter between the hills and pepper the wide deserts of land, spinning together, breaking, flaring, in a bright, continuous, tangled pattern, like stars and planets...