Word: poignant
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...purple garmented parade" the sensuousness of Keats. It is interesting to compare the melody of Tennyson's "Ave atque Vale, Fratrer," more poignant in its greater simplicity. If Mr. Snow's poem is decorative, its decorative is decoration deluxe. In "The Seventh Wave" by J. J. Ryan, the little picture of sea and sky is exquisitely painted: the music is subtle and haunting. Through his eyes for us the ocean lives...
...published an article entitled "Detestable Words." This gives a few examples of words which the editor despises. According to the "Bookman," "sense" appears as a verb in every form from the "father sensed his son's abstraction" to the "peeling infant sensed the coming of the succulent milk-bottle." "Poignant" is on the blacklist because of its downright stupidity, "stipend" because of its oily politician sound. "Remuneration" is a foolishly long latinized word, and "dainty" and "refined" are classed as belonging to the "chewing gum" variety...
Messrs. Smith and Thompson gave evidence of careful preparation in their numbers for two pianos. After the vigorous concerto movement by Back, Reynaldo Uahn's delicate pieces, "To Lull a Convalescent," afford a poignant indication as to the reaction of the war upon a sensitive Gaelic mind. Two songs by Verlaine F. Hinners '19 to texts by Vervain were sung by Dr. Davison with a romantic appreciation of their atmospheric contents, and with no slight interpretative skill. The piquant Terzetto by Dyorak, with its inimitable Scherzo was excellently played by Messrs. Gammons Baker and Hoffmann. Duets by Hershey and Brahms...
...gives the Major the front page for a picture, the editorial page for a bouquet and the only other page of prose for an interview. The editorial is a deft piece of work. It tells Major Flynn how glad, we are that he's here in a quaint but poignant fashion...
...within the writer's power. Of the two offerings in vers libre, one, the anonymous "Hermes," falls clearly below the average in leaving one uncertain whether it is seriously or humorously modelled upon the accepted pattern of the imagists. Another poem, "Middle Age," by Percival Reniers, has a poignant virtue as a "lesson for fathers," who in turn should impart to the rising generation of writers some of the distinctions between will and shall...