Word: methods
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Democratic cartoonists, is as fertile as he is facile. A slender little Scot, he sits under the gilded dome of the Pulitzer Building and does his job with dour thoroughness. He learned his line and perhaps some of his satirical sharpness under the late great Artist Whistler. His method is the oldtime one of standardizing the figures he seeks to flay. His corpulent, fat-jowled metaphor for the G. O. P. has became almost as well-known as was the late Thomas Nast's moneybag effigy of Boss Tweed years ago.* In the gallery of Kirby stigmata, the figure...
...Invitation au Voyage. Jean Jacques Bernard, who wrote the Civic Repertory's second opening qf the week, believes in suggestion rather than explanation as the most potent method of emphasizing subtle meanings. The heroine of his play is a complexed lady who, fatigued by her husband, forms a fixation for a businessman whom she had disregarded until he departed from France for the Argentine. During his absence, she worships him and lives at war with her neighbours; when he returns from South America, she is compelled, by comparing her mental image with reality, to curtail her adoration...
Three consecutive passes from Barry Wood '32 netted the yearlings almost 40 yards last Saturday. The aerial game proved so valuable in that instance that Coach E. L. Casey '19 has been trying to perfect that method of attack this week...
...effects he strives to produce. The sentences are too involved, and far too often there is a decided incoherence. One of the stories, called "Adolescence," seems in a fair way to present certain observations on that state when it is mangled beyond hope of success by the roundabout method of presentation. Another, "Wedding March" by name, comes considerably nearer to achieving...
...ecclesiastic's attempt to drag the Church into politics. As a citizen Dr. Walker is within his rights in giving his public support to any candidate he pleases. As a Christian minister he is justified in urging the maintenance of prohibition as in his judgment the wisest method of safeguarding the sobriety of the nation. But he usurps an authority never accorded him when he uses his high office to tell the members of the Church for whom they should vote...