Word: adept
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...fails in effect; one is jolted, not impressed. "Marah" by Mr. Pulsifer is better. Mr. Greene's "On a Pearl Shell" is a good thought ill-expressed. If the author of the "Snowshoe Song" can attune his snowshoe steps to the metre of his song, he must be an adept at the sport. A ski on a fair incline could hardly keep pace with it. As a picture, though, of pine forest in winter, it is not without atmosphere provided one shows up the cinematograph. The number is brought to a close by a couple of book reviews
Whether or not the management will see fit to adept this innovation is as yet undecided...
...grand or heroic, a tone which is shattered if passion rise, or ideas soar, or the somberness becomes oppressive." With this definition in view he traces the history of development of light verse from Elizbethan times to the present, reviewing the work of the men who have been most adept in this formof poetry. Intermingled with the writer's own comments are selection from the poetry discussed, and the combination of criticis, and illustration gives one a clear insight into the peculiaar characteristics of the verses of the different poets. The style of the article is easy and graceful...