Word: metaphoric
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...been said, variety is the salt and pepper which goes with the eggs of our every day existence, relaxation is the sugar in our coffee. The metaphor smacks, it is true of the restaurant, but the Vagabond must ask forgiveness for this if any cavil at its use for he intends today to relax; to feed on the sweet and unsubstantial food of idleness--to go to a baseball game...
...there is little left for acquiring our education. Though, to put it mildly, this is an exaggeration, the fact remains that for the Student Vagabond at least, the week-end offers a bright and golden opportunity from wanderings from the strictly academic pastures into regions where, to continue the metaphor, he may feed upon the more tender verdure of the art galleries and drink of the sparkling streams of music...
...COULD STAND UP-Ford Madox Ford-A. & C. Boni ($2.50). Author Ford's three-volume metaphor for what the War did to the presumable core of England is herewith completed. There are deep scars, wrought by much cleaving to duty. The scene is littered with social and personal wreckage. But the core survives...
...college literary magazines spring eternal from the female scribe. So like a Phoenix from the ashes of the Bay Tree (pardon the metaphor) springs the new Radcliffe magazine, sponsored by that carefree little journal, the News...
Someone has called Beardsley "an inspired grasshopper." It is a poor metaphor. Few grasshoppers prefer candles to the sun. Very thin, very long-handed, long-nosed, always a flower in his buttonhole, he infuriated William Morris by his somewhat ambiguous drawings for an Arthurian poem. Other people liked him better; his drawings in the Yellow Book caused critical thunderstorms. Esthetes strove to imitate in prose and verse the Beardsley gift for wistful evilness. His friends denied that he was obscene; in that denial they took from him his character and his curse. There could be nothing dirtier than certain prints...