Word: gracefully
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...navels which do not more than tell a pleasant story pleasantly. America, with all it boasted sense of humor take life more strenuously, if one is to believe its novelists, than do its stoild cousins of England. If it he British stolidity that shows itself in the light grace of the novels of such writers as William J. Locke and Temple Thurston, then let us hope that American humor may sometime find itself endowed with a touch at least of that admirable vice. "Main Street" and "Ell" present their problem to the rolled excellently well, but "The Beloved Vagabond...
...ability shown to present the true character of his sitters through close and studious observation of the physical forms and expressions that reveal the soul, that the popular appeal of Mr. Pollak-Ottendorff's works lies. His portraits, though it seem paradoxical, are large miniatures,--having all the grace, refinement, and texture of the miniature with the distinction and carrying power of the larger work. Though there be somewhat of the "photographic" quality in the drawings, the integrity, soundness, and uniqueness of the artist's work, its sympathetic humanity in bubbling youth or kindly age, are exceptional...
...Hasty Pudding Club is departing form a precedent of years in the arrangements for the costumes in "Wetward Ho". All costumes will be specially designed and made for the play alone under the direction of Miss Grace Ripley of the Studio of Costume Designs. The decision to have costumes specially made for use in the show, has given the Club greater latitude in the use of color schemes. It is the intention of the management to make every effort to have the costumes complete in every detail, to exhibit harmony with the scenery and to achieve a color effect hitherto...
...Athens that should make Rome vital, and Byzantium that should trumpet Italy out of stupid darkness, and the Latin Renaissance that should succour Europe even to the present moment, can any pen deny those who would look upon football as a momentary spectacle and upon beauty as an eternal grace...
...symmetrical and artistical--or who so conceit themselves? A or Anne, may be chaste but clumsy; B, or Betsy delicate-minded but dumpy and dowdy; C, active and fond of dancing but ugly; F, feminine in feeling but fat and fubsy. Must they therefore cover up? Must only Grace, Beauty and Agility go cool whilst Fat swelters and Fubsy faints? If so may there not be an exclusiveness in Polka as in Piety--and a monopoly of nakedness as of righteousness--a Socialism that is Selfishness at Bottom...