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Casual but successful experimenting had suggested writing to him as the means to wrest acclaim from the world he despised. When he feared that his only veins were sadistic horror and morbid, sexless romance, he wriggled out of admitting to limitations by translating them into, esthetic ideals. He propounded that perversity is a natural human appetite; that "there is no exquisite beauty without some strangeness in its proportions...
...they listened to the Debussy score as little as possible and almost completely ignored the singers, among whom was Madame Ida Rubinstein of Paris. Only when an opportunity to cheer d'Annunzio occurred, did the audience seem in the least at ease. It rose time and again to acclaim...
...have yet to see any reference in TIME to things German that wasn't "guttural." For instance in TIME, Feb. 22, p. 12. ". . . an official condemnation of Mussolini which they voted with guttural acclaim." Of course the German language is guttural, but did the adjective improve the above sentence one bit ? I rather think it didn't. It "gets on my nerves...
...royal motor drew away amid, acclaim...
...Smithsonian expedition of 1909. But there was this about the new expedition: It was, like the Field Museum trip, financed by a noted U. S. business man, by Walter P. Chrysler, whose low-hung, high-speed little motor cars have been darting through the land with wide acclaim in the past three years...