Word: pointedness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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To emphasize this appeal, posters in streetcars, on the pillars of subway stations, the billboards of vacant lots, present the picture of a woman in a shawl. Her chin is pressed to the pivot of her wrist; her eyes are smeared with black. She might be any age, this sad...
Seventeen fur-bundled men and a fox terrier had passed in an airship completely up and over the Earth's icy pate, parting that wilderness as a comb might part the unexplored thatch of a wild man from Borneo. From Spitzbergen in Barent's Sea via the North...
Other sophisticates, with an equally wise air, undertook to deny that Mr. Lewis refused the prize to advertise himself. They pointed out that he was quite consistent in refusing it just as he refused election, some years ago, to the National Institute of Arts and Letters. He had some reason...
Dean C. N. Greenough '98 pointed out the closer relations which were being created between University Hall and the H.A.A., and also said that one of the most encouraging signs of the new cooperation was that one of the deans of Harvard College should be invited to a Varsity Club...
Irving Berlin once worked as a waiter in Nigger Mike's, an East Manhattan saloon. His talent was schooled by the clink and shuffle of a nickelodeon. Critics have often pointed meaningly to this fact saying that a man who could emerge from such a background with an equipment as...