Word: precious
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...famous knees, she may adorn the front page of the Mirror. She may return with the count whose title proved a misnomer at Monte Carlo. She may be hailed as the leading emotionalist of the stage, for all the world loves a lovable Lorelei especially if her diction is precious and her ankles thin. But though the world play suppliant at her feet, yet all this is as nothing if the keystone of her career has not been dropped into place. If the joyful tidings have not been shared in the corridors of Sever, if the word has not been...
White elephants are a symbol for useless beauty, for that which is at the same time precious and without value. In the Louisville (Ky.) Courier-Journal, last week, the Central Furniture Co. of Louisville inserted a full-page advertisement of a sale. Around the edge of the page, in the corners of the page, through the middle of the page, were pictures of elephants, elephants, elephants, silhouetted in white against a black background. In all there were 21 small white elephants, one large white elephant. Under each small frisky pachyderm was noted some item included in the sale, as "Jumbo...
...John Dryden. Were it not for the fact that Congreve and to turn to the opposite pole, Bunyan are also included in the reading list the course would be just what one would expect from the author of "The Hind and the Panther." Few undergraduates have reached that precious stage where Dryden delights rather than bores...
Meanwhile--and this particular meanwhile is a very precious period--Yale is here; so perhaps the finest appreciation of the occasion is to forget scores, bad seats, traffic problems, ways and means of entertainment, even to forget editorials, and to enjoy realities--for, again, Yale is here...
Much has been said and written about what is wrong with the modern novel, but "The Dark Chamber" exhibits two of its greatest defects. The irrepressible desire to wallow in the morbidities of sex is one. The other is the continual effort to attain a "precious" style. Cline's efforts run to the use of esoteric words and a "lyric" prose...