Word: sketches
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...peat thumb-nail sketch of His Excellency's Intellectual fibre, as well as the crude educational level of Tennessee, is drawn later by his own equivocal words--"After a careful examination, I can find nothing of consequence in the books now being taught in our schools which this bill would interfere with in the slightest manner. Therefore, it will not put our teachers in any jeopardy. Probably the law will never be applied. It may not be sufficiently definite to permit of any specific application or enforcement. Nobody believes that it is going to be an active statute...
...will, no doubt, receive some irate letters about the Hobby Horse Article in your Feb. 23 issue. Some will denounce you for over praising-President Coolidge, some for ridiculing him. My private opinion is that the writer of the article has shown unusual insight and justice in his sketch of the President...
...Canadian subscribers appreciate the courtesy of your front page of the issue of Feb. 9 bearing such an excellent sketch of our Canadian Premier, not to mention the splendid summary of matters political here under COMMONWEALTH heading; and while I am personally a supporter and admirer of the leader of the other great political party, the Rt Hon. Arthur Meighen, I would be glad to receive a press proof of the cut of MacKenzie King- following the example of the Fritz Kreisler "fan" from East Pittsburgh...
...cover of your Feb. 2, issue, you have reproduced a sketch of Fritz Kreisler which, to my mind, is the best I have seen of this great violinist...
Unlike this sketch, the three prose narratives are not prose in conception, excellent as is the detailed style in each. "The Iron String" by Charles Allen Smart condenses the material of a novel into reminiscence, as introduction to a pretty turn of direction in mood that might have been the perfect idea of a lyric. The treatment of material indicates a failure to see the prose values of material and the sort of prose effect that it is possible to obtain with given material. But if one accepts the misapplication of lyric form, the management in detail is powerful...