Word: pinney
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...your reporter seek out Dr. Harry B. Pinney, the able, affable secretary of Chicago? There would have been no rebuff...
...Pinney's family consists first of his wife, "the mollusk," fat, superstitious, whose voice "held the habitual tone of a bagpipe collapsing." Then there is Mrs. Crum, hard-working mother-in-law, whose voice was "an echo of the spirit of '76," a not altogether unamiable creature. Young Eddie follows the general literary pattern of small boys. He tries to chloroform the cat, gets bad marks at school, is beloved. The daughter, Adelaide, is the high spot of the Pinney family. She is gifted with a budding intelligence which begins to blossom under the beneficent influence of her pleasant...
...through the assistance of the young financier and by the happy invention of a new eyeglass clip that Mr. Pinney's shattered fortunes are providentially retrieved at the last moment. And it is also in large measure due to the little spark of pompous courage which continues to burn in his insignificant bosom. He is a contemptible figure, is Mr. Pinney. But he is not wholly ignoble...
...Significance. Mr. Pinney is a definite addition to family portraits of the Babbitt clan. He is a spectacle intolerable in his noisy stupidity. But he is pathetic in his back-slapping assumption of confidence. He has built for himself a legend of his own magnificence, only at times shattered by the cold contact of reality. Mrs. Pinney, too, is perfect in her way. She is the unmistakable, corpulent complement of all Pinneys. But the author has gone no further. The entire book is devoted to a repetitious chronicle of the unimportant doings of the Pinneys. It never rises much above...
...Poor Pinney. Marian Chapman. Boni...