Word: pattern
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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France and Italy shall profit not a jot by the easy terms accorded Belgium, if Mr. Coolidge has his way. They will be examined impartially as to paying power, and then fitted out with an inflexible outfit of liquidation terms, cut along a take-it-or-leave-it Yankee pattern...
JUNGLE DAYS-William Beebe-Putnam ($3.00). A pattern of shot felled a yellow-headed vulture, which had swooped upon a spectacled owl, which had clenched (and been hugged dead by) an anaconda, which had bolted a basha (torpedo-shaped fish), which had snapped up a pok-poke (smoky jungle frog), in whose food canal lived an opalina (irridescent protozoan covered with hairlike flagella). Explorer William Beebe, who fired the shotgun, indicates this chain of life with his dissecting knife, philosophizing as he studies Nature in the steaming jungle of British Guiana. Other chapters-creeping, rustling, whirring, crashing, oozing with live...
Sued for Divorce. Condé Nast, publisher and chief owner of Vogue, Vanity Fair, House and Garden, Royal, Children's Vogue, Vogue Pattern Book, by Clarisse Coudert Nast, daughter of Charles Coudert, member of the law firm of Coudert Bros., one of the oldest international law firms in the U. S.; in Paris. They have lived apart for some time...
...space a syllable at a time, like the languid descending streamers of bored rockets. They are the lines of Poet Cummings. Words, he realizes, have four dimensions?contour, connotation, color, sound. In ordinary poetry, the dray work of supporting the context and of conforming to the conventionalities of a pattern maim these values, render words absurd as a medium of meticulous art. Therefore, he arranges them in bizarre groups, droops them across a page, lets their meaning depend largely upon their effect as psychological images. That words can ever be used thus fastidiously is a doubtful hypothesis. Poet Cummings...
...last American drama seems to have hit upon a pattern and a rhythm all its own. Breaking away from German Expressionism, our native playwrights are developing a special national technique--a sort of radio-ragtime-phonograph-jazz. Two plays in particular illustrate this latest experimental phase. One is John Howard Lawson's "Processional" which has been the storm center of discussion in New York. The other is a still more extraordinary play by his friend, the novelist John Roderigo Dos Passos, a play that has not yet been acted or published, called "The Moon is a Gong". This...