Word: style
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Monarchists outside the town marched past Prince Oskar and General "Ludy." They wore high hats, frock coats, white ties, elegant boots. The sight of this motley crew goose-stepping in grand style made even German generals laugh...
Technically, it is built in the style of the "Peter Rabbit" series-a few lines or print hand in hand with an illustration on every page. Both prose and pictures are good, for, though not always exceptionally funny, they-catch very well indeed the spirit which they are meant to give. And, what is more, they are of the sort that stick in the reader's memory long after he has put the book aside. The 'Friday Evening", for example, or the single meal at Memorial Hall, might easily become historic. Nor do I think that anyone at all acquainted...
...free style swim: Johnny Weissmuller of Chicago...
...inexperienced entries are expected. It is for the benefit of these men that the long distance runs have been reduced from two to one and one half miles, and from our to three quarters of a mile. The remaining is events will be run off in the usual style, the running events starting at 4 o'clock and the field events at 3.30 o'clock...
...unwilling to let an old tradition die. Instead of trusting a ponderous and modern law of libel to crash his annoying critics into silence he has polished up his grandfather's rapier, frothed slightly at the mouth, and challenged them en masse to a duel in the true Dumas style. As yet there are no indications that the editors who objected to Monsieur Beraud's new novel have entered into the spirit of the occasion by sending their seconds...