Word: buoying
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...into something lasting; so many little quips and literary furbelows that would be worthy to set off a finer dress. It is small wonder that sometimes these pieces are gathered together and swept into a volume, where they may play a sort of public journal to the authors, and buoy up the notorious "sense of accomplishment". Humanly Mr. Morley has every excuse in the world...
...whistling buoy reported lost from the St. Lawrence River a year ago was washed ashore at Bryher, one of the Scilly islands (just off Cornwall...
...There is no great chance for art here: it is the whole-heartedness, the vigor, and the liveliness of the whole cast that makes the play so appealing. If the humor seemed to drag in spots, it was only because it needed a responsive audience to echo it and buoy it up. There was plenty of it, spontaneous and without archaism. For settings, which required frequent shift, curtains and flats were used with artistic and appropriate effect, and proved readily adaptable to the varied action...
...clock this evening Professor C. T. Copeland '82 will give his annual Christmas reading in the Dining Room of the Union. This year's selections are quite different from last year's and will consist of extracts from Bret Harte, Kipling, Fielding, and Leacock, including Kipling's "The Bell Buoy" and "The discovery of America", a movie satire by Leacock...