Word: mixes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Mix, he of the gigantic hat, he whose shadow has so often swept across the screen of the University, has come from Hollywood, and he has shown that the mania for handling big receptions in a big way is not a growth that flowers only in the adult mind. The germ is implanted in the child's first consciousness, and flourishes from that time on. But though the mature can claim no monopoly in its possession, they alone are able to release it install its dazzling light. The top hats, the mile-long parade, and the tons of confetti...
...satire, so pleasantly present in "South Wind," may still be found in "In the Beginning," but the hand that guides is less sure, less deft. The fantastic mythology, created by Mr. Douglas, is pretty hard to keep track of, in their meanderings over the earth and heayens. The gods mix with the ladies, and the goddesses with men, and who is a god of the first water and who is an honest-to-God man is too difficult to perceive for an average-minded reader like your reviewer...
...Love and the Ladies," Mrs. Abbott has refused to mix black or even brown among the paints on her palette. The six short stories which make up the volume are woven of the golden mist of day dreams, and the silken threads of a playful imagination. The characters are frankly of the sort that never were on land nor sea but only in the mind of one who is willing at least occasionally to think of how pleasant things might...
This lecture is one of a series conducted by the Topiarian Club throughout the year. In the past they have attempted to mix their program with both technical and non-technical lectures...
...power plants must include not only hydro-electric but steam-driven generators. "We must mix the white coal [water power] with the black coal [thermic power]," declares Signor Motta, "[to] make up for the deficiency of water power in years of minimum rain fall...