Word: faintings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...difference, few readers point out that the Cosmopolitan's are of slightly greater fame and salary than the International's?Philip Gibbs, H. C. Witwer, A. S. M. Hutchinson, Meredith Nicholson, for example, as compared with Tom Gill, Walter De Leon, Edwin Balmer and George Weston. Even this faint distinction is confused by the fact that many of these authors write for both magazines, and that what they write is invariably the same?"high-life" escapades, "low-life" escapades, apartment-house romances, love at first sight ?all manner of Tillie-the-Toiler skits in the popular, fiction-factory formulae...
...Christmas day in the morning, bellringers spit on their hands; they catch hold of the ropes that go up into rimed steeples. "Ding dong," goes the first faint and shaken bell; swallows leap out of the belfry. "Ding, dong," peals the carillon, its notes dropping into the air like stones into water...
...etching), he is spurned. He employs many great names, many swaggering pronouns. "Whistler," says Etcher Pennell, "Whistler and I. . . ." "Whistler and me. . . ." Down the list of the world's immortal etchers he runs his pen, here scratching out a name, there setting a black spot, occasionally making the faint checkmark of approval; Of Zorn's later prints he says: "They had become feeble and photographic beyond words," though for the other periods of that surpassing master he has some admiration. The book is illustrated with the prints of many great etchers?Whistler, Rembrandt, Pennell, Gova, Duveneck, Turner, Lepèère?...
General Maurice Sarrail, who commanded the Third Army in France during the War, has many friends; these friends started a verbal rumpus to have him made a Marshal of France. The friends of General Michel de Castelnau, also numerous, heard the faint hubbub of Sarrailites and started a campaign to have their hero made a Marshal of France. When Generals Fayolle and Franchet d'Esperey were given the batons of a marshal, General de Castelnau was one of the disappointed Generals. His friends declared that the authorities had slighted him be cause of his well-known Royalist sympathies...
Cheerleader Mullen, who gyrated himself into a dead faint. (Page 20, column...