Word: distortion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Laymen's fingers are still pointed. People still ask to be told the sense of what they like to call Modigliani's "daubs." And they have been answered variously. Recently an absurd attempt was made to apply the yardstick to Modigliani, to prove that he did not distort human anatomy.* Others admit the distortion but defend it by saying that the Egyptians distorted, as did El Greco, the Italian primitives. The merits of Modigliani, they add, are many: his color is finely schematic; his line is sensitive and delineates the sitter's character with wit and insight...
Last week there were reverberations. Major General James Guthrie Harbord, retired (Radio Corp. of America) as 2nd Division Commander, rumbled judicially: "The placing of a memorial by another division almost at the gateway of Belleau Wood will distort history for posterity." Back came Lieut. Carroll J. Swan, president of the "Yankee Division Club": "It is absurd for the Marines to say we are taking any of the glory from them. . . . We were just as regular as they, and more so. . . . It is rather late in the game now to criticise. . . . They are the greatest bunch of advertisers in the world...
...whole was a series of experiments in wireless telegraphy. On Mr. Dunninger's back, under his coat, were a transmitting set and four flashlight batteries so carefully concealed that they did not distort his figure. Inside his trouser legs dangled antennae. In his pocket was a telegraph...
...Brown Derby which Spokesman Hughes uttered. He charged Nominee Smith with indulging in "cheap ridicule," "diatribe," "absurd tirades." "He [Nominee Smith] has stooped too low to conquer. . . . One's sense of fairness is affronted," said Mr. Hughes. "He misrepresents the position of Mr. Hoover and attempts to distort the meaning of Mr. Hoover's fine presentation of the true liberalism...
...Withdraw!" screamed Bergery, "Withdraw! If you don't take back the words 'distort the truth' I will send you my seconds...