Word: expressione
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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The death of Boston's youthful heavy-weight contender has called forth from the press an inevitable gush. Mawkish sentiment has become a characteristic of American journalistic expression; it helps to boost circulation. But beneath the columns of effusion one senses an occasional spark of sincerity. Schaaf played the game...
Officially the Division approaches its field by the "historical method," a vague phrase meant to suggest perhaps that it is more interested in cultivating gentlemen or scholars, than in training creative artists or enthusing aesthetes. More closely examined their educational system is seen to be a combination of three distinct...
The play is neither first nor second rate; it is in the no-man's-land between. Equally high praise can scarcely be given to the acting. While there are some moments of inspiration, there are many moments of poverty of expression and banality of action. Nor in the prompter...
Thus this detailed study is necessary, if the full benefit of the Classics as literature is to be realized; for from it comes accuracy of expression and thought that is of value, not only in Latin B or Greek 2, but as well in the study of the Modern Literatures...
Brightest bit of testimony came from Hearst's star witness, the egg-throwing Mrs. Ward. Under cross-examination by Lawyer John William Guider she admitted referring to Griffith as "lacto bacillus acidopholus-because he would sour the milk of human kindness"; and as a "dirty rotten turtle egg" because...