Word: style
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...next morning, the story came out. Darkness had come earlier than expected. The General saw a 500-acre field of young corn and decided to come to earth. It was hard by the hamlet of Eva. One Mrs. B. F. Holland gave him hot biscuits, supper, country style; shelter for the night. It is not recorded whether he was set to watch the biscuits, whether, like that famed cottage guest, King Alfred, he allowed them to burn, was boxed on the ears...
...gentlemen forced their lascivious rivals to wait at the field for some time, making them so nervous that they were in no condition to play when the Crimson appeared dressed in clean black and white. The lampoon urchins were clad in rags, patches and outlandish masquerade costumes, and their style of play won them their first laugh since 1876 when the Harvard funny book was born...
...tried narrative skill; they expound both masculine and feminine character unabashed, as if experience sat lightly upon their shoulders, and no recess of human nature could resist the tolerant ease of their perceptions. Nor do they permit themselves any unduly meretricious display of mastery: restraint and directness of style mark each story in turn. I cannot think any of the work, however, able as it is, distinguished by an authentic and native gift...
...Coolidge has lately adopted the following style of handshaking: Standing next to a queue of visitors and facing them obliquely as they approach, he extends his hand, grasping that of the first man in the line. Shaking the hand, smiling at the visitor and saying a word, he draws his arm back, pulling the visitor past him. Any inclination to linger on the part of the visitor is forestalled as the President extends his hand to the next and draws him, likewise, past. This practice is said to result in an economy in time...
After the first shock, the crew settled down very quickly. The envelope was dented along its whole length, the bow was hanging in shreds and there was danger in the fierce wind that it would rip still further. Men went aloft in sailor style, lowered a rope ladder over the bow, gather up the loose ends of the flapping cover and bunched them , together. They made untidy balls but prevented the fabric from ripping further. In the first burst of the gale, the ship traveled stern first for many miles, rolling constantly and threatening to head down into the water...