Word: style
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Turk is a grisly crusader in any style. Americans have sometimes undergone duckings for too early and too eager donning of straws and white flannels, but a wireless message from the Black Sea shore informs the New York Times that twenty-four Turks have been executed for not wearing according to Mustafa Kemal's late decree, hats of the European mode. Non-conformance is costly in Asia Minor...
...mirage that has been flickering for weeks over a whole city block on Manhattan's upper West Side, ceased flickering last week and stood motionless, a fixed vision. It has the shape of a skyscraper of the Babylo-American style. It is the home-to-be of the Metropolitan Opera Company, a towering image of efficient U. S. culture...
That he had asked for funds to investigate further the work of American sculptors, and proposed to use just as many of them as could work in accord with the Gothic style of the Cathedral...
...that reason that Coach Wachter is still undecided as to his starting line-up. It takes big men to overcome that style of play, and in this respect Leekley and Barbee are vastly superior. Nevertheless, it is possible that Coombs and Jones may be called to go on the floor at the opening whistle...
Burns, the shifty 1929 floor guard, was up and down the court in rapid succession finding the net for five clean tosses and checking his forward in good style. O'Connell whose speed has been a valuable asset to the squad in one of the forward berths, worked well in combination with Filoon and Bailey, and succeeded in caging four goals from the floor...