Word: style
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Comparison. The English style of play differs from the American in several ways. Primarily, the English seldom hits their shots with the spectacular punch of a Milburn or a Hitchcock. They rely on expert horsemanship, which the present invaders possess to a greater degree than any of the Americans save Webb. They play a clever, maneuvering, short-passing game. In combination play, an English Back usually stays near his goal continually. No. 3, the pivotal man, pairs either with him or with No. 2, leaving No. 1 to "ride off" the opposing defense or play a lone hand. An American...
...American women have decided for themselves that they want bobbed hair . . . The new style. . . has created a new demand for a particular kind of service. This demand is as real as is the demand for dressmakers or milliners. Thousands of young ladies are taking courses throughout the country to train themselves as beauty specialists, particularly in hairdressing and manicuring. . . The environment is not of the best. It is a profession. There is no reason why the schools should not teach the profession to these girls and young women. . . . It is just as important as work and manual training...
...writes about all the familiar plagues and problems of the body-from catching cold to cancer; nor is there any trace of sickroom smirk nor of professional "strut in the way he does it. His style, in fact, is colored with a richness of literary allusion. For instance: "Do you remember Joe, the fat boy at whom Mr. Wardle was always shouting 'Joe! Damn that boy, he's asleep again'? Joe had an overpowering predilection for meat pies and mutton and roast beef. He is a humorous character, in fiction. In real life, he would be Tragedy...
Than Alexa Stirling there is no finer mistress of golfing style in this country. Glenna, masculine of wrist, short of swing, comes next. Edith's game, while steady and dependable, is more loosely constructed than theirs, but she makes up the difference in temperament. Like brother Dexter, the intercollegiate champion, she is bursting with boyish energy and spirit. Her interests are not confined to golf alone...
...long line of makers of local gravestones, but rose to fame and munificence as one of those who instituted the classical revival of Italian Art. He made statues of Palamedes, of Napoleon, of Hebe, of Hercules and also of George Washington. In his great style he modeled the founder of our country, in the flowing toga of a Roman Senator. Secure permission to have made, from this statue, a replica in the best Carrara marble. The State of North Carolina will pay the expense, and we, the Legislature of this Commonwealth, will place the replica on the steps...