Word: precisionism
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¶When comparatively small delegations arrive at the White House, President Coolidge scatters, with precision, more than a dozen forms of greeting among them. For example: to handshaker No. 1 he will say, "How do you do?"; to No. 2, "It is good to see you"; to No. 3, "I...
The portraiture has icy precision. Epigrams rattle like hail. Southern stuffiness?the scene is Queen-borough, Va.?is snowed under by pretty drifts of poetic irony. It is engaging reading?but the wrong person wrote the book, overwrote it, if these generation-comparisons are to be taken seriously. Miss...
Rabbits, ducks and partridge had trained Annie Oakley's hand and eye to such precision by her 16th year that her performance against a highly rated shooter, Frank Butler, both broke and stole his heart. Soon they were married and she later said, "Frank really reared me." They toured...
... I appreciate TIME very much and chiefly on account of its precision. It endeavors to be very accurate in giving things their right names. To live up to this policy, would it not be advisable to call from now on the former "Roman Catholic Church" just the "Catholic Church," which...
However little it may mean as a prophecy of future Crimson success, nevertheless, the brand of football displayed in the Stadium Saturday reflects great credit on Coach Horween and his charges. The Crimson attack was executed with a beautiful precision and drive. Interferers cleared out the opposing tacklers effectively, and...