Word: contrasts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Among the more outstanding marks-men who have loosed the flight of slings and arrows at the ex-marine have been Heywood Broun, Louis Bromfield, Sinclair Lewis and H. L. Mencken. "One has only to contrast the interviews given by these two men, Dempsey and Tunney; one simple and profound, the other a mixture of bombast and cant," says one decrier of the literary note in Mr. Tunney's public statements. "A pugilist reading Hegel is about as appropriate as the dean of a woman's college singing. 'I'm Gonna Dance Wit' the Guy What Brung Me' says another...
...been recently a lot of talk by public men and the press over the alarming concentration of power in the Federal Government at Washington. Most of the talk as well as the comment has been general and little of it specific. . . . This all seems trivial to me, in contrast with other things that have happened...
...Author. Mazo de la Roche, whose face and name are reminiscent of French forbears, was born in Toronto, educated thoroughly and spasmodically. She went to art school in Toronto, but, in contrast to those writers who in moments of inertia decorate their manuscripts with little pictures, Author de la Roche scrawled small stories on her sketch papers. Even now she prefers to write with a drawing board on her knees. Jalna, chosen as the best of 1,100 novels, is by no means her first published work,* though it is the first to bring her wide recognition...
...Chadwick, Davison Scholar from Wadham College, Oxford, finds life in metropolitan American Cambridge in sharp contrast to life in rural Oxford. "Harvard Square," he told a CRIMSON reporter yesterday. "Is one of the strongest arguments for Prohibition...
...novelist to draw on human consciousness. The English country-side particularly appeals to the author. In America everything is rough, ready, uncouth, forlorn, and dilapidated. There is a feeling that American civilization is only temporary, to which England's age and historic and literary tradition offer a striking contrast. That is why literary figures such as J. G. Fletcher, T. S. Eliot, and Ezra Pound have taken up their residence in England...