Word: style
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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John St. Loe Strachey, prominent British journalist and editor, will speak at the Union on Friday night, it was announced late last night by the Union management. His topic has been tentatively set as "Literary Revolt". Technicalities of literary style will not figure prominently in Mr. Strachey's talk, according to present plans...
Seldom does Mr. Walter Duranty, able Moscow correspondent of the New York Times, indulge himself in any but the most decorous nouns and adjectives. Last week a suppressed flair for a style more incarnadine and virile apparently overcame him. He filed a long despatch, which ran in part as follows...
...Angora, President Mustafa Kemal of the Turkish Republic continued his policy of Europeanizing Turkey by holding a dinner-dance in Occidental style. He shattered tradition by insisting that all the women present should remove their veils and join in an old-time Turkish dance with the men. Previously such a proceeding would have been considered sacrilegious, especially as many non-Turks of the foreign diplomatic corps were present. So great is the ascendancy of Mustafa Kemal at present, however, that all the members of his Cabinet and their wives, as well as the leaders of Young Turk society, conformed docilely...
...whole the November number of the Harvard Advocate is sadly disappointing. Its contents are mediocre as regards style and not particularly noteworthy as to subject matter. Except for evoking reminiscences of better days not so long past, it can hardly entertain the reader...
Having just brought one social conflict to a hasty conclusion, the intrepid Harvard Lampoon launches forth upon another in its current issue in which it attacks in jocose but vigorous style the "social Freshmen" who have been attending Boston dances in alarmingly large number of late...