Word: casuals
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...McClure's Magazine from 1906-12. She did not marry, but her literary offspring appeared at regular intervals, each more admirable than the last, until One of Ours took the 1922 Pulitzer Prize. In her quiet New York apartment she is not a striking figure but rather detached, casual to the outward expressions of existence, calmly occupied with the deliberate achievement of perfection. She says she had accumulated sufficient material for a lifetime of writing by the age of 20, but that would not include years spent in the Southwest on archaeological expeditions, fruit of which is the aesthetic...
...have the greatest contempt for the way they teach at Oxford. The only things of any value there are the games that are played. The modern young man has no mental discipline. He thinks he can learn all about everything from casual conversation instead of from books. That is impossible. My advice to him is to read, read, read...
...Governor Fuller of Massachusetts paid $35,000 (the highest price of the day) for a small, irridescent canvas: Vigilio: A Boat With Golden Sails, bought five other pictures for the Governor's grim home in Maiden. Little paintings that Sargent had done when he was studying ?Venetian scenes, casual landscapes, watercolors ? brought thousands of pounds; $23,000 for a diminutive canal scene, $11,000 for a picture of the Doge's palace; $4,300 for Man Seated by a Stream, "undoubtedly the most expensive man," said the London Evening News, "who ever sat by a stream...
...Hazards and Casual Water. Rule XXV: When a ball lies in, or touches a hazard, nothing shall be done which can in any way improve its lie; the club shall not touch the ground...
Cyrano de Bergerac. With this film, it is again indicated that good plays do not necessarily make good cinemas. Also the casual cinema adapter is vaguely vindicated. For this version of the Rostand comedy- made by Italians-follows the lines of the original like a silk stocking. Thus is eliminated virtually all the comedy of line. The cinema is essentially the drama of movement. Cyrano sits still too often. Yet, as a faithful transcription of one of the greatest of modern comedies, the venture deserves attention from thoughtful cinema-goers-particularly those in. the waste places where otherwise the comedy...