Word: style
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...marauding and maternity. Author Hurd selects a dozen of the sea-rogues, letting a good tale justify its telling. Author Seitz collects a murderous crew of some two-score?all there were to be found, one feels and touches off the exhaustive store of anecdote in a rare, quirky style that smacks tartly of 18th Century...
...arrow was concerned, he won. But the penalty of victory was death. After the wounds he inflicted upon Mr. White and the two natives have been healed at Nairobi, Archer White will return to the jungle for six months more of chance-taking, chance-giving, in the style of the Battle of Crecy...
Your magazine is quite wonderful. Never have I read news events so delicately, so keenly etched. You must know that your style is profoundly affecting the more up-and-coming newspapers of the country. I have introduced it to several City Editors and hard-pressed rewrite men, then joyed at the rejuvenation of their works...
Your articles and the style of presentation are both excellent, I think, but I am wondering about the correctness of "Yangtszekiang River" several times used in TIME, June 22, Page 13, CHINA. Doesn't Kiang mean river? If not, the dictionaries seem to be wrong...
...Favorite dramatist, Shakespeare; favorite stage actress, Jane Cowl; favorite stage actor, John Barrymore; favorite movie actress, Norma Shearer; favorite movie actor, Adolphe Menjon; favorite amusement, bridge; favorite automobile, Packard; favorite style of beauty, brunette; favorite girl's name, Mary; favorite man's name, Robert; favorite color of eyes, blue; favorite cigarette, Lucky Strike; favorite cigar, Corona; favorite tobacco, Blue Boar; favorite study, history; favorite college department, English; hardest course, History 201; easiest course, Evolution; most valuable course, Biology; favorite college outside of Princeton, Yale; favorite woman's college, Smith...