Word: plastically
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...artist whose one-man show was thus fashionably attended is perhaps best known as Dancer Paul Swan. Born in Springfield,Ill., he has achieved distinction in the U. S. and Europe as a versatile and talented exponent of the dance as well as the graphic and plastic arts...
...Beside the wonder and the transport of the music stood the wonder and the possession of the performance. Two choirs, three hundred strong, of young voices fresh-timbred, full-throated, plastic, susceptible: sopranos of luster, altos velvet-piled, the striding richness of basses, the bright ascent of tenors. Two choirs schooled also in the usual and the exceptional virtues of choral singing; then practised in this music, every accent and modulation, every gradient and climax, had become a free, full speech...
...Messieurs J. Risler and P. Mondain, had a preventative and a cure for radiodermitis. Noting that the long-waved infra-red heat rays are antagonistic to shorter-waved constituents of the Xray, such as the potent ultra-violet*Risler and Mondain had contrived a "ray filter" of plastic material, penetrable only by the infra-red and yellow rays. The long-waved rays thus filtered out were then applied to living tissues that had been exposed to the destructive influence of a complete Xray. The tissue showed no ill effects. Cases of radiodermitis, next treated, were declared "completely cured" after three...
...tonal mass," "plastic power," went away well content that if they had not passed the final dicta on Manship, they had, at least, put marble into words. The attendants at the Scott and Fowles Gallery, hearing these phrases, as indeed they were often expressly intended to, were not guilty of visible leers. They had been trained by long service to realize that loose verbiage, when applied to beauty in bronze and stone, is not necessarily an evidence of slovenly culture. They had tried, these attendants, to expound, from time to time, on various objects to the spatted or braceleted clients...
...Morgan became state and almost national champion a while ago, the elders talked of freaks and all that. But last year, the Harvard youngsters won the class A championship. They will win it again this season. The professional coach who used to instruct the Harvard Club players found more plastic material in Cambridge: youth is always easier to mold than ago. His pupils are so much better than their competitors, have developed a style of play so much superior in strokes, tactics and variety to yesterday's that there is mock serious talk of asking them to drop...