Word: style
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...unlike Alice, recall any adventures--no, we must find the Carpenter and shed another tear. . . . Swallowing hard, we escape from the prologue to the editorial page. What, O Lampy, Ibis, Blot! What has become of the magic pen? Where is the gentle flow of easy banter and the singular style that once outran alike sophomoric itchings and threadiness of subject? Such a bare veneer of it is the first editorial; and the rest, indeed, somewhat less than three paragraphs of silence. The style of Lampy has always been traditional. It must always be so; it must be perpetuated...
...Mississippi. That is about all. Mark Twain, conjurer, used to tell about the Mississippi; and every page or two, he would come out from behind his screen and have a cigar with the reader?or a drink, maybe. Mr. Boyd does not use tobacco, in a literary way. His style is as impersonal as the river, and as grave. But, on that unlaughing surface, a boat is reflected, slipping down the river under a moon like a golden poker chip; people on board eating, drinking, fighting, making love?ladies in lace pantaloons?bad men with aces in their cuffs?...
Arlen's life is semidetached, like his characters in These Charming People and The Green Hat. He has a gesture of romance, even in the accident of birth. Is it not strange that so many foreigners bring to the English lan- guage a style that, while thoroughly English, has a touch of color in world-grouping that makes it richer than much purely native writing? Arlen was born on the Danube and moved to England when he was quite young. He went to school fitfully, was educated partly in Switzerland, came back to London and was exceedingly gay. He danced...
...rule which specifically states that shoulder guards must be as carefully padded on the outside as on the inner surface. The shoulder guard generally used has a leather surface with felt an inch thick on the under side. The majority of teams have already been equipped with this style of guard at considerable expense. And as far as is known, no sports goods manufacturing company has manufactured or is manufacturing a guard which complies with the new rule. And, according to that new rule, all such guards must be discarded, or immediately equipped with a top layer of one inch...
...extraordinary episodes, finally stalking for a night and a day over the sinister and mist-wrapt Highlands of Scotland. Aside from its indisputable ability to excite, this work contains a wealth of character study and pungent observation that lifts it from being a thriller into being a book. The style is that of a well-read hunting-squire, talking rather fantastically at his own dinner table where, after all, he is privileged to talk...