Word: style
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Significance. Arthur Train has never done better. His gift lies not in narration, though his style is eminently readable. His plots are usually negligible. But he is past master of the art of dramatizing the problems?social, legal, economic?of tangled modern life. His characters are in many cases vividly drawn, but in the main they are subordinate to the examination of the intricacies of the social structure. Peculiarly in a position to know the very rich and the very poor, together with the legal mechanism of their interrelationships, he has the knack of dragging dull facts...
...That ain't my style," said Casey "Strike one," the umpire said...
...actual delegates, a small portion of the whole number present, assembled in a great hall filled with State standards, in the best political convention style. Messages were read from Rear Admiral Sims, from Charles P. Donnelly (President of the Northern Pacific Railway), Lord Byng (Governor General of Canada), Josephus Daniels, General Diaz of Italy, Admiral Beatty of England, General Pershing, Major General Lejeune, Secretary Weeks, Secretary Wilbur, Field Marshal Haig, Admiral Koontz, Georges Clemenceau, Newton D. Baker, Rear Admiral Hugh Rodman...
...Plymouth, beside the Rock, in 1845, lost his father at sea when he was only five. At seven he was apprenticed to a shoemaker. You can see him, "W. L. Douglas Pegging Shoes at Seven Years of Age," between "$7.00 French Brogue for Men" and the "$5.00 Advance Fall Style for Women" in almost any newspaper...
...knows and to be perfectly clear. He advances nothing new or profound, unless it is an emphatic command that the left toe shall "claw" the ground and the eye be fastened not upon the ball as a whole, but upon one particular dimple of the ball. The style advocated is the straight-armed, full-swinging British method and will not appeal greatly to Americans, who now favor the curt backswing with a short-shafted, large-headed club. In the U. S. there is not as much distinction between a "swung" wooden shot and a "hit" iron shot as Tolley makes...