Word: style
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sirs: Alice Foote MacDougall [on the LETTERS page of the Nov. 16 issue] expresses what to my mind is a defect in TIME-your style of English, "Came the President," "Sneezed the Senator" and all that sort of thing. It is grotesque, unattractive and as irritating as a sore thumb...
...there are some practical needs to be met. We have made little progress in arbitration since the war. Other countries have made much. In June, 1924, we signed an arbitration treaty with Sweden which followed the old style of reserving questions of national honor and vital interest. As M. Hymans recently told the Belgian Parliament, that formula is outworn. But we have been held back by our failure to take part in the current work of organization...
...dress rehearsal in the theatre, in the hilarious dinner table scene in the hilarious dinner table scene in the boarding house and in the uproarious final carnival. The former director of the "Gay Theatre for Grown-Up Children" and of the so-called "Cracked Looking Glass" set the style for the free theatre which Meyer hold and others have carried on in Soviet Russia, and though he has himself shaken the dust of Leningrad and Moscow from his feet and wanders an exile through the Caucasus and in Paris, Evreinov still knows how to keep us amused in the same...
...Articles will be judged by the following standards: a humor; b, style; c, taste...
...survey made by a committee of the Chamber, a list of leading causes for unethical trade practices has been compiled. They include price fluctuations; trade customs which have outgrown their justification; "fly-by-night" business organizations; changes in style; discrimination among customers; lack of standardization in trade practices and in products; the lack of machinery for adjusting trade disputes...