Word: precisionism
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The Significance. Not often does a first novel carry a weight of emotion that makes so fussy a critic as famed Alfred Noyes say: "It is the kind of novel that might have been written by Keats. . . ." The untruth of this statement is valuable as an indication of the flustered...
There was Harold Horsfall Hilton, 58, editor of Golf Illustrated, four-time amateur champion, twice open champion, who was out to win his 100th match in title play. He still had his oldtime precision, but his drives had lost their ginger. He was eliminated in the first round.
Five super-dreadnaughts of the U. S. Navy spat 18 and 20-inch shells at unseen targets 30,000 yards (17 miles) away. Every shell scored a precision hit. This target practice, directed by airplanes, took place last week off the coast of Guantanamo, Cuba.
Whether "Magda" would seem like the great play it does without a Madame Kalich or a Sarah Bernhardt is open to serious question. The part of Magda was created for a great actress--what it would be without one we fortunately are not called upon to determine. Madame Kalich in...
Thomas Watt Gregory, scholarly, reticent, made no statement. But he told friends that he favored Smith and would give him his wholehearted support. In Manhattan (busy with the many-million-dollar Goodyear case) Newton Diehl Baker peered at newsgath erers through horn-rimmed spectacles. With great precision he remarked: "Of...