Word: askew
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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THEODORE Francis Powys is a highly skilled master of the craft of writing English prose. He inspires even a reviewer to aspire to the gentle knack of turning words askew so that their edges sparkle. In the tradition of the English men-of-letters who find a delicate amusement in the sophisticated subletry of perverse ideas, the author of these fables plays a part, but not without just rooting himself securely in the healthy soil of life. Thus he effects a nice refinement of words and ideas with all the vigor of the primitive. This makes him very chic indeed...
...public consistories fortnight before Christmas. To Church diplomats the important fact was that of the five new Cardinals, only two were Italians. The traditional balance between Italian and non-Italian Cardinals in the Sacred College which for centuries has assured the election of an Italian Pope was sadly askew, standing last week: Italians, 29; non-Italians, 33. As there are still eight vacancies, another consistory will probably soon be held, more Cardinals appointed. But according to tradition at least four seats in the College of Cardinals must remain unfilled...
Scheffer, Leonard, Abernathy and "Well I" Askew kept the ball on Georgia Tech's ground most of the time. Vanderbilt 23, Georgia Tech...
...notions he would land at police headquarters. These disheveled inventions are woven into a play, mad enough to fool most of the spectators for much, of the evening. When the hero took the stage and exterminated virtually the entire troupe with revolver shots it was patent that something was askew. Tangles and untangles, it was fairly good...
Soon Senators began to straggle in-some in evening clothes, some with their morning ties askew, some unshaven, many vexed. Senator Hawes of Missouri said that his taxicab had caught on fire, that he had to call a fire engine. Senator Willis of Ohio said that he saw the flag floating over the Senate wing of the Capitol (denoting that the Senate is in session) and so he hurried from the Union Station. Vexed, Senator Reed of Missouri rushed down the aisle, shouted: "This is an inexcusable outrage...