Word: display
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Alice Meynell, poet and essayist, leader in the English Catholic literary movement. Her Poems and A Father of Women display intense, controlled emotion, often devotional in subject. The Rhythm of Life and The Second Person Singular are essays. Her husband, Wilfrid Meynell, and herself rescued the poet, Francis Thompson, from starvation...
...pickled walnuts and plovers' eggs?Darius Milhaud and Ouida?a patchwork of curious names, objects, personages, vices?a plate of literary antipasto, some pleasant, some a little stale. Somewhat affected, somewhat precious, quite amusing, though not nearly as delightful as Peter Whiffle, The Blind Bow-Boy reviews a facile display of intellectual fireworks from under the lacquered eyelids of a superficial sophistication. The fireworks squib out, the performance is over. There were too many pinwheels near the close, perhaps, and the shadow of Ronald Firbank had a way of straying across the scene. But, nevertheless, the avowed purpose...
...Knight Kauffer, inviting the weary cityman to rural shires. Some of these men, now recognized as the foremost poster artists in England, got their first big chance on the Underground. The Underground literally set the nation's standards of poster publicity during the War, refusing to display the Government's first crude and inartistic recruiting posters. The Company sent as a free gift to the boys in the trenches one Christmas, a series of posters of home life by great artists, including the Land of Nod by Charles Sims, R. A. The stations of the Underground display...
...Arles in Provence, on the FÊte of the Assumption, was held the annual amateur bull fight, in which the swains of the sunny South of France display their skill and courage to their admiring sweethearts...
...sweeping horns); calf roping; trick and fancy riding for both sexes; steer riding; relay race; and cowgirls' bronk riding are featured. There is certainly nothing on the stage; little in the movies or the prize ring; little in football or polo that can compare with this program in display of sheer force and courage. At bronk riding and steer bull-dogging, contestants are frequently seriously injured, occasionally killed. Tex Austin imports from the West and Southwest steers and broncos selected especially for their lack of amiability. Certain famous bad horses: Mystery, Nose Dive, P. J. Nutt and Peaceful Henry...