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Obvious Care Is Lavished Upon an Advanced Specimen The Story. George Wallace was a Yale man who wrote poetry. After college he went into newspaper work and grew properly ashamed of ever having versified-until he met Judith Winthrop. Judith's ancestors had chartered the Mayflower or something, but she was as advanced a specimen of our modern intelligentsia as you could find. She had a Shaw-green room and a dozen pet paradoxes and wrote articles for Tomorrow, a journal of opinion, in forming the world that Charles S. Chaplin could act. George fell in love with...
...name all manners of proceeding " style " " literary style." The road to the White House is not identical with the pathway up Parnassus. Yet those who walk must have a stride, those who speak must have a style, and Mr. Coolidge has just presented the public with a new specimen of the Presidential literary gait-in 1,120 words he addressed the National Convention of the American Red Cross. By measurement, Calvin Coolidge covered 1,120 words in 62 sentences -an average stride of 18 words a period. This is a short, a simple, almost a mincing gait...
...Lady Geraldine. Her husband was a perfect brute, but she was loyal. Ensued sandstorms, struggles with Arab assassins, lots of noble self-sacrifice, wads of local color. "And with a little cry. . . . she lifted her lips to his." Swift exciting rubbish by the author of The Sheik-a perfect specimen of what used to be called a hammock book. HOMELAND-Margaret Hill McCarter-Harper ($2.00). Jack Lorton, before he went to France, thought Leslie Jannison was going to be his own little Dream-Girl-yes, that was the way he talked. But when he came back he found her practical...
...Mencken's theories of the " American language " met the ridicule of speakers before the Conference of British and American Professors of English at Columbia. Dr. Henry Van Dyke of Princeton referred to the suggestion of an American language as being either " a specimen of American humor " or " a serious enormity." Dr. F. N. Scott, of Michigan, speaking of Mr. Mencken's translation of the Declaration of Independence said: " That Mr. Mencken has failed to perceive the gulf between the sterile vulgarity of his performance and the massive dignity of the original, is for Americans not a matter...
...Thoreau's little hut by Walden Pond he treasured a single ornament- a fine specimen of granite, cut and polished by himself. To enjoy its delicate markings, Thoreau had to dust the stone every day. At length he decided that the time spent in polishing the little block was out of all proportion to its value; it was needlessly cluttering his life. So one day pitched it into the middle of the pond...