Word: style
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...grandchildren of men who made money are already beginning elaborately to forget how it was made, are beginning to employ as much unnecessary labour as possible, because it is expensive, and to change their fashions as often as costumiers can invent new ones, because to wear an obviously different style of dress every few weeks is a conspicuous way of showing that they can afford to waste money. There are other signs with which we are also familiar. No English public school can now compete with some American Universities in their enthusiasm for sport, and they are only following...
Unlike this sketch, the three prose narratives are not prose in conception, excellent as is the detailed style in each. "The Iron String" by Charles Allen Smart condenses the material of a novel into reminiscence, as introduction to a pretty turn of direction in mood that might have been the perfect idea of a lyric. The treatment of material indicates a failure to see the prose values of material and the sort of prose effect that it is possible to obtain with given material. But if one accepts the misapplication of lyric form, the management in detail is powerful...
...class A championship. They will win it again this season. The professional coach who used to instruct the Harvard Club players found more plastic material in Cambridge: youth is always easier to mold than ago. His pupils are so much better than their competitors, have developed a style of play so much superior in strokes, tactics and variety to yesterday's that there is mock serious talk of asking them to drop out of the league. Are the older men never to drain the sweet cup of victory? . . . . --Boston Herald
...Rakowitz women who overruled seven generations of Rakowitz men. The book is an extraordinary graph of the involved ganglia, the subtle criss-crossing veins, the interwoven tissues of a great family. It is written as Mr. H. G. Wells used to write before too many ideas gave his style the gout...
...Christmas my son and two daughters received subscriptions to TIME, with the paterenal admonition to study well your style , and diction. In their very first copy (Dec. 29, P. 4, col. 4) you tell them, "this data...