Word: distinctiveness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fact remains, however, that the President's supporters of his own party will be in a distinct minority on the Committee, and any attempts on his part to put in effect anything but an isolationist policy will be met by strong opposition...
...they as valuable as it is claimed? Certainly they have had a distinct influence on modern art. But Clive Bell, one of the sanest of modern critics, says that he intends "to keep his head" about Negro art. He maintains that they show taste and skill, but not profundity of vision, and that they lack originality, duplicating without question the conventions of their predecessors for generation after generation. In other words, the Negro art, which has been too much ignored, is now in danger of being equally overpraised...
...drawings for the tickets should be distinct, according to the requirements of the committee, so that the reproduction of them will be clear, and the design should be in keeping with the ticket in question. The Memorial tickets, for example, should in general have on them some design of Memorial Hall, and the Yard tickets some object associated with the Yard. All designs of Memorial Hall, and the Yard tickets some object associated with the Yard. All designs should be done on white paper in black India ink, and should be four and one-half by seven and one-half...
...SHIPS -Highly unusual film of the high-tide of the American whaling industry. When one irritated sea-monster starts crunching a boat and its occupants like a peppermint stick, directly in front of the camera, it is difficult to keep the shivers out of your spine. A distinct achievement...
...novel as the lady of the Lucy Stone League who refuses to visit Europe because her passport must bear the dreaded brand "Mrs. Heywood Broun." Ruth Hale is slim, dark, vivid, eager. She writes moving picture criticisms and book reviews. She has a cleverness very nearly as distinct as that of her versatile husband. George Kaufman and Marc Connolly, too, are usually here; and John Peter Toohy, press agent, author of a novel and of plays. Of such is "The Round Table." Otherwise at the Algonquin: The Rascoes, Hazel and Burton-Burton, a nervous, slender figure, vigorously collecting gossip...