Word: jowl
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...surprised by the original manner in which he presents a powerful story"--so runs the brief puff. Well, frankly, we were surprised by it. More than that, we were mollified. In such a frame of mind it is hard to get eye-to-eye and cheek-by-jowl with an author's intentions, supposing that he has some. And so, in trying to line up a few impressions of "The Patchwork Madonna" we are at more than a usual loss...
...good telling of his drab childhood, his golden-haired mother, his whiskey-bibbling father. In Shanty Irish he attains not the strange lure of roving Beggars of Life (recently effectively distorted for the cinema; see TIME. Oct. 8), but projects instead that charming Gaelic shiftlessness which composes, cheek by jowl with uninspired Teutonic steadiness, the U. S. formula...
...airplane map of Cambridge. There is Massachusetts Hall, there a quadrangle in the Georgian style. The campus of Tait is cloistered. There are ivy-covered towers, containing, by the way, college bells of familiar penetration. It were piddling to find fault because Agassiz Hall has alighted cheek-by-jowl with Holworthy, with no thought of what havoc such change would raise in the architectural scheme of Brattle Stret...
...signed by Fry. A tree from Watteau, a sash from Cezanne, a tilted corner from Guy Pene Du Bois?second-hand oddments tumbled from the artistic property-trunk that is Mr. Fry's memory. Brave among them was a portrait of Lytton Strachey. His beard was dank, red, hedged, jowl and cheek; clammy were his hands; unkissed, unblessed, looked this great author. Students, painters, gazed upon him, went away muttering about the Fire, the Frying...
Eyeing the hand of Conductor Damrosch, the entire congress began to play, with sonorous tutti, Saint-Saens' Variations on a Theme by Beethoven. Then Mines. Hess, Leginska and Mérë sat jowl to jowl at one piano, played Boieldieu's overture to La Dame Blanche. Laughter and applause. Mr. Brailowsky opened the preamble of Schummann's Carnaval, passed it on to Mr. Gabrilowitch, and so the music leaped from instrument to instrument "till all marched against the Philistines...