Word: style
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...guidance in writing is unavailable to men not on the Dean's List. Rightly enough, the Sophomore course in composition which had proven a refuge of the indolent was abolished; but no substitute was provided giving average mortals the practice and criticism indispensable to the development of a tolerable style...
Olympus. Forgotten Homeric deities may well have laughed as the militant and ungracious Dictator of Greece, General Pangalos, assumed the style of a respectful cavalier and escorted Lady Austen Chamberlain, ever tactful wife of the British Foreign Secretary, up the slopes of Mount Olympus...
...Independents could very well say. There were too many queer ones, new ones, sad ones, naughty ones, for a measured judgment. There was, for instance, a picture by a Russian, one David Burliul, in which he visualized the vibrations of modern city life in what he defined as "radio style." Eitaro Ishigaki, a Japanese, drew a picture of a phantom on the point of being crushed by a thousand falling elevated trains and run over by a horde of cockroach taxicabs. It was a "satire on the U. S. flapper." Noboru Foujioka painted some dejected cretins playing at cards, called...
...treatment of this delicate problem, Miss Hurst will undoubtedly displease and even offend many, yet in spite of the fact that one may not care for her setting her characters, or her style, one must congratulate her upon this work which has, above all else, originality...
...game was marked with innumerable long volleys which were caused by the entirely different style of playing which each man employed. Wright resorted to his well-known slashing drives, while Haskins used some very effective drop-shots...