Word: poetic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...alien powers malignantly striving to reduce British prestige. But these spectres which after all are but half fictitious, Dean Inge accepts in a fatalistic spirit, quite contrary to the usual jingoistic anathemas. And thus his description of French hostility and American indifference to the English carries conviction where the poetic bitterness of Kipling...
...Japanese ordinarily refer to the Emperor as Tenno or Tenshi and speak of him as Kotei (a Chinese title meaning "Emperor) in discussing his relation to non-Japanese affairs. Only foreigners employ in conversation the poetic title Mikado...
...contrary, is but human; and there is his weakness. But football, a game for red-blooded, virile men, there Joe Forecast is in his element. How he longs for the opening kickoff to see the Crimson-jerseyed hosts pass and repass the last white line. But I grow poetic. I have to be very careful about that...
...CHARWOMAN'S SHADOW- Lord Dusany-Putnam ($2). Poetic alchemy in mediaeval Spain...
...first great Eisteddfod was held in the sixth century to prove the superiority of vocal song over instrumental music. By annual repetitions it has developed into a national bardic congress with many contests, prizes, poetic addresses, trumpets, elaborate ceremonies...