Word: style
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...centuries of grammatical debate, many an uncomplimentary assertion has been made concerning the use of language. From strict interpreters of style who follow Walter Pater, the English tongue has received an almost Prussian drilling. With the precision of a top sergeant, they have marshalled modifiers to bear down on the sloppy ranks of slang...
...slang, its originality, lost completely. Phrase after-phrase follows the imitative route to a dull oblivion. As a remedy for this stultifying condition, a simple moderation offers itself. And if the College composition courses can safely manoeuvre between the chill formality of Pater's stately sentences and the mongrel style of the streets, a Harvard man may yet produce the great American novel...
Houser, who was beaten for the shot putting championship last year by Ralph Hills has wonderful nervous energy and unparalleled speed. It is a pleasure to study his style. I have welcomed the opportunity to do so in his trips east during the past two years and also at the Olympic games. No "small" man has ever crossed the circle faster than Houser in my belief...
...Williamsburg, Va., when the President received his seventh LL.D. (the first, however, from any college outside New England†) he paid a tribute to the founders of the country such as he has frequently paid before but in a style more ambitious than his usual utterance. Consider the following sentence: "And when the wanton ravages of war reduced this once flourishing institution, which had spoken so boldly in the cause of liberty, to a state that left little but the vibrant tones of the college bell and the fervent prayers of a devout President, it was a distinguished...
Since Author Bakeless presents facts supported by an imposing bibliographical reference list, and since his style is engagingly candid and modest, the dullest reader cannot but take bit after bit of fact in his teeth and go galloping off to all sorts of stimulating thought hurdles...