Word: patchworked
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...proposed innovation, then, is intended to teach children something of the drama; but it proposes to do this through a medium which has hitherto presented dramatic principles in a form grotesquely distorted at best. Cinematic themes are commonly a patchwork of the efforts of several authors, or have been hacked piecemeal by the rewrite-men. The "character conflicts" are arranged in accordance with the meretricious morality of Will Hayes, and the acting is too often a mere exposition of secondary sexual characters. When genuine works of art are remodeled to conform to the movie-goers taste, the author's subtleties...
Author Van Vechten, when he was a child, used to collect birds' eggs, postage stamps, cigaret pictures, tobacco tags. Now he collects gaudy things of the mind, mostly reminiscences. Pieced together they make a kind of patchwork quilt, recalling. null strips of bright or sombre color, a bygone age. Neither very sacred nor very profane, they make good reading for belles-lettres' connoisseurs...
...lieutenant approached, calling for the fugitive to surrender peaceably, he could see that the man's clothing was a, patchwork of deer and rabbit skins. Incongruity upon incongruity, the man appeared to be a Negro. The discharge of a sawed-off shotgun was his answer to the police. Then he jumped through a window, started running...
...inquisitiveness. Under scrutiny by the committee last week were loans to South American governments of which $815,000,000 are now in default. Whenever he could Digger Johnson tried to prove that the State Department had been the partner of bankers in foreign fields. A typical yarn from the patchwork testimony...
With Captain McGrath, Wood, and Mays, absent because of examinations, a patchwork Harvard team looked anything but impressive for six innings, when against the masterly pitching of F. B. Cutts '58, who had defeated them. 7 to 2 in the annual affair last year. While his teammates collected eight runs, a homer by Sullivan in the second, another in the fifth, and two more on Chauncey's single in the sixth, and a total of four in the seventh when they batted around, Cutts allowed the Harvard team but three scattered hits. He weakened in the seventh and eighth...