Word: medium
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Austen, cool, said: "I do not feel it my duty as apparently the Honorable Member does, to doubt the word of British representatives in China." Up and down England the fact was apparent that British news from China is becoming a medium for political manipulation and strife...
Realism, so-called, is indeed the password and fetish of modernity. Realism, in painting, realism in literature, realism in music--and always this realism is atended by unpleasant noise whatever be the medium of expression, and rarely is it real. Yet cacaphony in music may, for all that, have more of a log to stand on so to speak, than disharmony in other branches of art, for only last night an article appeared in a metropolitan newspaper to the effect that music through its new mechanics will strengthen certain muscles in the ear that have become attrophied through disuse...
...became "a superb horsewoman, a keen huntswoman and an excellent shot." Not until the 1920's did she start writing and her first things won instant recognition, including an O. Henry Memorial mention. A professor-friend describes her: "Well above medium height of her sex; up standing, virile and vivacious. Hair plentiful, rather riotous and red. Eyes greenish-grey. Features large and full of character. The entire woman is instinct with indescribable charm...
Honeymooning is a rowdyish jamboree, in which only the naive may find a modicum of unsophisticated amusement. The bridegroom plays dead on his wedding night, while the bride repents the cruelty that supposedly made him commit suicide and the in-laws communicate through spiritualistic medium with his table-rapping soul. Every now and then, he skips out of the coffin to pound someone on the head, then jumps back in again. No one catches him. Antics drive the farce out of the ridiculous into the absurd. The odd things about it are: 1) It was written by Hatcher Hughes...
...goal of the Fund is to attain as near a 100 percent subscription list as possible, and the class of 1926, through the newly-adopted medium of the Fund, last year achieved a larger percentage than any preceeding class...