Word: slant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Since Barrie no longer writes, no one has succeeded like Mr. Milne in giving us the peculiar Barrie quality, the blending of fantasy with life, the humor of taciturnity, the comedy slant on character, the bitter grimace at success so marked in Barrie's later plays. "Success" is "The Twelve Pound Look" plus "Dear Brutus" in theme, scored delicately for a small orchestra. It is not powerful but it has imagination, a wishful beauty, and a kind of hurt sincerity which one remembers...
Most U. S. news organs and some U. S. news-services put a wrong slant on the story. To the exclusion of other truths it was reported that no Hohenzollern was present at the Death, that a Prussian adjutant of the ex-Kaiser had barked: "The attendance of His Majesty at the funeral is wholly out of the question...
...dentists found the President in a better mood, they would have been interested, when he smiled, in his teeth. On the left side the upper molars are worn down, presumably by chewing pipes and cigars, to a peculiar slant which helped earn him his campaign sobriquet of "Beaver...
...Mays once again went over the line following a 60 yard run. The team functioned well as a unit, carrying out assignments in snappy style. Another long march ended when White slipped off his left tackle for the 'third tally, Mason earning the extra point on an off-tackle slant...
...Wherein are slant vases, many-hued...