Word: footedness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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The Significance. A vivid, swift-footed description of youth's perennial first assault upon life?written with beauty, humor and fire. A younger generation that is not Fitzgerald's treated from a new angle and without professional flapperisms. Faults of course?occasional over-writing?occasional lapses into adolescent unreality?but...
With the opening up of Africa by Stanley and Livingston, there came a sudden increase in foreign trade, particularly in wild beasts. Two enterprising young men, Messrs. Barnum and Balley engaged a stock company of particularly well-dispositioned wild animals, and took to the road. Later out of business courtesy...
Pitying the cinema has attained the proportions of a national pastime. Breathes there a man with brain so dead that he has not repudiated those curly co-eds eating ice-cream cones on the campus; those red-blooded "Society folk" with midnight bathing parties; those flat-footed vampires; Will Hays...
Speaking of the Paris Conference: "Mr. Sullivan seemed to be sure-footed and to know his way about the diplomatic crevasses-cool, alert, distinguished and clearheaded. When he lunched with Balfour or Lloyd George his seat appeared to be the head of the table. To such languorous notes as Peace...
Alexander Woollcott: . . . "An obscure work made doubly obscure by the leaden footed thing it became when done into English."