Word: pattered
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...dull today." Mr. Sanger's "Aeroplanes" has a good swing. The "Grotesque" by Mr. Norris contains a good idea, marred at times by a somewhat perfunctory technique. The "Phantasy," by Mr. Willcox, though abounding in color and imagination, is breathless in its movement; it reminds one of the "patter" of comic opera. Mr. Rogers is dreadfully sophisticated. But perhaps "Retrospect" is not his last word on life. "A Thought" represents him in a less heartless mood. Mr. Parson expresses in a meditative sonnet his awareness of the power...
...well written, showing careful preparation and a real grasp of the essentials of a peculiarly complex and interesting political situation and for this article alone it would be worth while for undergraduates to read the issue. There is also what seems to me a typical utterance of the stand-patter,--a graceful statement of well worn and out worn Republican platitudes by ex-Governor Long. There is also, just why one does not know, in this otherwise admirably serious and pertinent number a lurid word collection from the pen of Mr. Thomas W. Lawson, chiefly sound and fury signifying nothing...