Word: satiricism
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Artist Arno was christened Curtis Arnoux Peters. He is a robust, dark fellow, as conservative in appearance and dress as a discreet haberdashery poster. In 1922 he graduated from the Hotchkiss School in Lakeville, Conn., where he was voted "Most Musical" and "In Worst with the Faculty." Then he took...
The Significance. Audacious as it is masterly, the conception of a young hero-heroine living richly century after century is a feat of imaginative intelligence. In unskilled hands the bold conception might well fall short of artistic execution, but Mrs. Woolf is a craftsman of great skill. The mechanics of...
DOCTOR ARNOLD or RUGBY-Arnold Whitridge-Holt ($3.00). In Tom Brown's School-Days Thomas Arnold is immortalized as the formidable headmaster, rex atque sacerdos. In his son Matthew's ode on Rugby Chapel he stands with "radiant vigor." In Dean Stanley's enthusiastic biography he is...
Gay, ridiculous, wise, exasperating, fantastic, Java-Java's satiric truths mingle with its pack of lies. Sober readers will be shocked, contemptuous, bored; others will enjoy the fun and then forget it. The youthful author also wrote O Rare Ben Jonson.
Excitedly played by citizens of many lands, last week, was the game of Ring Around Nobile-a question game. Was that Swede really eaten by those two Italians? Would Dictator Mussolini snub and degrade General Nobile? What about Titina, the General's little, yapping fox terrier bitch? Why wasn...