Word: prolix
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Never Be," and in "A Natural History of the Dead," which is an excerpt from the prolix thesis on bull-fights, "Death In The Afternoon," Hemingway is bitter, and by no means at his best. "One Reader-Writes" is a letter from a young woman to a doctor columnist in which she asks him if her husband can ever be well after having "sifllus." After completing the letter she moans, saying to herself: "I wish to Christ he hadn't got any kind of malady. I don't know why he had to get a malady." This is an example...
...Smythe Hichens, 68, who wrote his first novel, The Coastguard's Secret, in 1881 and his most popular one, The Garden of Allah, in 1905, likes to lay his puppets in a row, dissect them body & soul in advance. In The Paradine Case he takes most of 332 prolix pages for this job. But the reader who gets through these may feel repaid by some 200 pages about the trial itself, mostly swift, naked, exciting questions & answers...
...Hutchinson -Little, Brown ($2.50). Twelve years ago the huge success of the novel If Winter Comes caused its shy author, Arthur Stuart Menteth Hutchinson, to flee precipitately from England to the Balearic Islands. The success of Author Hutchinson's latest tome, The Soft-Spot, a painfully mannered and prolix dissection of an Englishman with a talent for sponging, should cause him no such embarrassment whatever. Stephen Wain developed the habit of living off his half-brother Maxwell, a wealthy explorer, when they shared diggings in Bayswater, where Stephen studied architecture. Later, as a practicing architect, he was too obliging...
...Norman Matson; Arthur J. Beckhard, producer) has been under various play doctors' care since 1927, when Mr. & Mrs. Matson first wrote it. Its ills are still uncured. To begin with, the play is not named after the central character of the piece. Central character is Stephen Rolf, a prolix worthy who lives and paints on Cape Cod and goes about in a windbreaker. His brother, sensitive Karl, is the cartoonist of the family, having created a comic strip character named "Muggs," who always is defeated in the last picture...
Symphony of Six Million (RKO). The warm, prolix emotion which Fannie Hurst put into her story about a young Jewish doctor on Manhattan's East Side is strongly translated in this picture. Felix (Ricardo Cortez), humbly set up with a backroom for an office, finds few paying patients. He has long hard hours at a neighborhood clinic. It is his idea of happiness, however, to know that he is relieving a little the suffering he has seen everywhere about him since childhood. His fame but not his wealth grows until, realizing a debt to his family, he becomes a fashionable...