Word: facing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Book,* like the first five volumes of its series, lives up to its title. Author Mencken's style is that of a capable blacksmith. His hammer is large and noisy but it usually descends squarely on his anvil. So gritty are the workman's hands, so sweaty is his face that it is easy not to realize that for the most part he is engaged upon no more important a task than flattening pennies...
...material of ensuing chapters can be deduced from their titles: "God Help the South," "Dives into Quackery," "The Pedagogy of Sex," "Appendix from Moronia." In all of them, accurate as they may be, important as they may seem, one has the picture of steaming, sweating Author Mencken, his face red from beer and the light of destructive enthusiasm, beating out penny absurdities to the amazement of an audience composed almost entirely of what he refers to as "booboisie...
Nathan, on the other hand, is a man of 45 with a young, sad face, the face of an esthete. His attention has generally been focused on the theatre which he now reviews and ridicules in the pages of three separate publications. He has also published The American Credo, a sort of joke book full of the nonsensical notions which U. S. citizens supposedly accept as fact. Some of these notions are merrily apposite; most are mere fictions invented by Author Nathan who sometimes (as above) seems capable of falling into his own babbit-snares. Most of his other numerous...
...week at the Pittsburgh Carnegie Institute (TIME, Oct. 24), talked to one another about an old Scotsman. John Kane, housepainter of Pittsburgh, was known to some of the townspeople whose houses he had painted; critics had never heard his name. Some of the townspeople who remembered his long, bony face, his big, brown, scaly hands, remembered also hearing that when John Kane had finished with swabbing clapboard or pillar, he would go home and paint pictures in his bedroom. The critics, who saw his "Scene from the Scottish Highlands" hung with 119 other U. S. paintings, could believe that...
...examine the plot further. In spirit, to use that nebulous word, it differs, however, from the other fruit on the family tree. That new spirit is due without any doubt to the presence of Pola Negri. She is not pretty the bathing beauty sense, yet it is perhaps her face which gives the tone to the whole picture. There is in it a look of passion and tragedy without which "The Woman on Trial" might be interchanged with any other similar picture and no one would care much, even if he noticed the difference,. But there is a difference...