Word: style
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Fanny Brawne, proves Miss Lowell, was far from the shallow, flippant, witless girl that worshipers of Keats have been pleased to style her. That she had intelligence the author infers from certain letters (never examined by any other biographer) written by Fannie Brawne to Keats' sister after his death: "Let us admit, once and for all, that Keats made a most uneasy lover. . . . It would have been small wonder if Fanny Brawne occasionally asked herself whether this exacting and excitable young man could make any woman really happy...
...last issue of the Harvard Alumni Bulletin is printed Dr. Eliot's recent address to the Society of Harvard Dames urging a return to "old-style marriage". Of most modern tendencies Dr. Eliot is sangulne. His characteristic attitude is today the same as it was half a century ago, one of confidence in the ameliorative forces which he has seen at work in the world. But this confidence stops short in face of the appalling evidence of race suicide among educated families. He refers to figures which show that the average Harvard graduate has only one and seven-tenths children...
When questioned by a CRIMSON reporter, Coach Lewis declared, "I am sure that the University team will come through in fine style and preserve its record of being undefeated. I believe this year's team to be stronger than last in every class. At this time last year, Harvard had 49 points to its opponents' 30, but this year we stand...
From the first, Baker adopted a hard, offensive style calculated to upset Dixon's more conservative gime. Repeated smashes from the front of the court to an inch or two above the tin proved too difficult for Dixon to return, so that after the second game little doubt remained as to the outcome. From first to last Baker's was a brilliant game and showed great improvement over his former match with Dixon on January 10, in the Harvard-B. A. A. contest. On this accasion Dixon won by a very slight margin, the games standing...
...When I was in Berlin in 1923 I visited the grounds of the huge museum which is now under construction, and was told that one entire ward of the building will be devoted to plaster reproductions of architectural and sculptural subjects in the style of those in our local museum...