Word: parallelism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...knowledge, but it is impossible to expect it to consume all the indigestible efforts that now bury bookshop counters. The burden of a profitable business, they must go down in red ink on the ledgers of men who abandon discrimination because they fear to reject a work that might parallel the phenomenum by Will Durant. And the better authors, in a struggle to keep their heads above water in a sea of competitors, must produce more often if not as well, to hold public interest...
...pages of last year's American Mercury, and with the Nation's fervent and constant gibes in the direction of the metropolis of the Commonwealth, what journalists name the "Bub" is apparently in a bad, bad way. The comparison most often cited is that of decadent Rome--the parallel being in the fact that both cities lost their majesties, the one through luxury, the other through misplaced Puritanism...
Balk is current nomenclature of two sports. Baseball pitchers make a false motion to throw (called a balk); opponents are allowed to advance one base. Not so in billiards. In high class championship play, lines on the green cloth tablebed are drawn parallel to and 18 inches from the cushions. When two of the object balls are driven into any of the eight spaces bounded by these lines and the rectangles of their intersection such balls are "in balk...
...Rump Parliament and the Tennis Court Oath now have their parallel or parody in the State of Oklahoma where Governor Johnston, in danger of being impeached, flees his nemesis by the efficacious course of placing bayonets before the door of any building where the impeaching body might meet. But these newly created men in the street, with none of the reputed indifference of the other citizens, have already instituted proceedings in what was literally an open session and a standing vote. And the five articles of complaint are but a fire-screen behind which rages the feeling against efficient...
...plays, which have never been given on any stage, the Dramatic Club has closed its eyes to everything but the Dos Passos, Lawson, type, whether as burlesque, original or modernization. Where, the question has been propounded, are new examples of the old methods? Where is the college parallel to George Kelly, to Maxwell Anderson? It is not, one may say quite assuredly, to be found in "The Chisholm Trail", but it does lie a great deal nearer it than, say, "The Orange Comedy...