Word: gracelessness
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Once there was a dance called the Chicago, a graceless thing of scissoring hips, jutting elbows and wild necks. It is gone now, its very memory erased by a lithe barbaric jungle shiver, to which the gentle city of Charleston lent its name, and which has now brought a savage and quite inappropriate glory to the city of Charleston. Recently Mayor Thomas Stoney of Charleston, the Mayor's wife and ten members of his cabinet journeyed to Chicago to attend the first national Charleston championship contest, and to award the silver loving cups to the winners. The Mayor said that...
...when whole chapters were filled with declamation on a single object. That all this voluble writing was not taken too seriously, however, is shown by a letter addressed by Mr. Sterne to his publisher. He refers to his somewhat sordid volumes of Tristram Shandy as his "seven or eighth graceless children" but promises the publisher that he will make up for it by "begetting a couple of ecclesiastick ones" to atone for their sins...
Significance. Since it is a graceless business to cast aspersion at the work of one so justly honored as the author of this novel, it may be said that the book teems with action. Like a disorderly street seen from a window, cobbled with yellow faces, it teems; adventures shoulder and jostle; events prod each other's ribs; Sentimentality picks the pocket of Romance. One is forcibly reminded that nothing is quite so dull as unvaried liveliness. It is a book that achieves a forthright swagger that the fiction of this latter day has largely lost. Beauty in distress...
...discrimination and genuineness this part of difficult rapidness. Captain Goodlack, Spencer's friend, and even Spencer himself, are not in the play specially "convincing" persons: they are chiefly the means of proving to us that Bess is "a girl worth gold." Under these circumstances, Mr. Kenyon as the rather graceless Goodlack and Mr. Eliot as Spencer did their parts with judgment and success; Mr. Eliot's lines were particularly well-delivered, usually with genuineness and skill...
...horizon. The protectionists had been too fast in drawing their conclusions. It seems that there is one man left at Yale besides Prof. Sumner who remains unconvinced, and he has the bad taste to write a long letter to the New York Evening Post saying so. This graceless young man, forgetting the courtesy of the superintendent and the happiness of the operatives, takes an altogether mercenary view of the matter. He calculates that the orange trees and other luxuries at Willimantic costs the country annually over a million dollars, and seems to think this is too much. This...