Word: signed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Incidentally the sympathetic treatment which Mr. Cummings, despite his eccentricities, his appallingly frequent parentheses, and the occasional obscurity of his symbolism, has been accorded by his reviewers is an encouraging sign of the growing maturity of criticism. The contrast between the present ideal of interpretation and the old reviewer's method of judging according to fixed principles, shows how the function of criticism has changed since the days of the supremacy of the Quarterly and Edinburgh Review...
Bluebeard's Seven Wives. A genial prod in the ribs of the movies, made by the movies themselves, is a healthy sign. Movies have too many times taken themselves seriously. This one is played by Ben Lyon, Lois Wilson, Blanche Sweet. The young man hops from a park bench to leading man and riches...
...Pope named these four, each cardinal present rose in his place, lifted his scarlet biretta as sign of agreement or mayhap retained it in firm objection. Who, if any, dissented from the Pope's nomination, no outsider will ever know, for each cardinal has gone through the ceremony of the "opening and closing of the mouth" as token of his silence on papal matters...
...rule. It doesn't strike me as a fair deal to your patients that your writing should not be so legible that any chemist could read it. Suppose it were urgent and none but Blank could read the writing and Blank's store was closed. You would sign a death certificate just so. A nod is as good as a wink, and this note may lead to some intelligibility...
...this sort of thing is unnecessary, if not a bit absurd, when there are any number of ways to eliminate it. The simple expedient of a sign erected for vehicles coming up Plympton street would serve admirably. What could be simpler: all north bound traffic mush come to a full stop before crossing Mount Auburn Street. This method is used successfully in many large cities, and requires only some boards, paint, and a not too lethargic police department to put it into operation. David N. Scoll...