Word: following
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...follow ticklers in literature and fine arts. In the trial question booklet figure such propositions as where is the Slough of Despond described? or during the reign of what monarch was the most beautiful translation of the Bible into English published...
Keith said that he hopes to appoint the Business manager by the end of the week. Competitions for the various boards will follow...
...snakes began to weave back & forth as if they were "dancing" to the music. (Many herpetologists believe that cobras actually pay little attention to the pipes but sway in an effort to follow the body movements of the charmer. Carefully keeping them swaying with a motion of his hand. Sir Miles's charmer stopped playing, inched forward, and with his other hand firmly grasped one reptile behind the neck, lifted it into a bag. He then repeated the performance on the remaining eight...
...streets in literary biographies. Writers seem to lose their way just when they ought to be going strong-as Melville, after writing Moby Dick, turned out the weird, confused, unreadable Pierre. Sometimes writers escape quickly; sometimes, like Melville, they are gone for good. But when a writer begins to follow his genius up a blind alley, all that admirers can do is wait and hope they will return together...
...rare. On the contrary, the psychosis is likely to be aggravated by stuffed-shirt critics, lecturers, anthologists, Five Foot Shelves. An accidental cure sometimes occurs when a reader stumbles on to a first-rate modern critic, who illuminates the classics with insight and imagination while advising the reader to follow his own reason, draw his own conclusions. An honest reader, if he believes that Shakespeare is junk, and can say why, does the cause of great literature less harm than the snobbish or timid who pretend to like writers who really bore them to death...