Word: contrivedness
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"The landscape portion is handled with real decorative adroitness, but it may be objected that the forms . . . remain static, posed, studio figures. The effect of the whole, if brilliantly contrived, is pedantic and artificial."
It was enough for eager spectators that the whole boxful had been lumped together the day before by Soviet President Mikhail Kalinin as "the bitterest enemies of the Soviet Union, leagued in a conspiracy to overthrow the Soviet Government-men who have stooped so low that they have lost their...
Out. Two years after Tunney's retirement, Sharkey and Schmeling, final survivors of a prolonged elimination tournament, fought for the title. Schmeling won on a foul. In 1932 Schmeling lost the title to Sharkey on points. In 1933 Sharkey lost it to Camera. In 1934 Camera lost it to...
No country wins the Olympic Games. Officially each contest is a separate event. To consider them all as a unit and arrive at a satisfactory result would be impractical. On the Olympic program there are 22 sports, each containing numerous events, and no two nations would be likely to agree...
What Correspondent Slocombe knows best is the depressing series of European conferences after 1919 in which the Allied statesmen tried to evolve from the War a neat, tight, old-fashioned victory settlement with Germany. At these doomed gatherings, now being repudiated by a fresh generation of statesmen, there was no...