Word: style
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...deputies, in terror of arrest with the lapse of their parliamentary immunity, fled in all directions. Deputy Thomas cropped his radical locks Hindenburg style, but was recognized by the police and only escaped by hiding in a coal heap...
...intercollegiate debate usually consisted of a series of well-drilled flights of oratory, the object of which was to dodge adroitly an ever shifting "burden of proof". The far-flung reputation of Bryan's "Cross of Gold" speech undoubtedly impressed schoolboy orators with the desirability of mastering this style; but it has made the task of training a college team to speak simply and directly vastly more difficult. It is recorded that one of the recent coaches of University debaters made persistently eloquent candidates speak in trial debates with a waste paper basket under each arm. Less humiliating...
...least interesting feature of the debate this evening will be the opportunity of comparing University speakers, who are but gradually approaching the fluent conversational style, with those of Yale and Princeton where changes in the old order have been made with great vigor and enthusiasm. To some degree the results should measure the appeal and test the practicability of a new style of public address...
...added to the interest which these startling revelations and pertinent questions naturally present is a force of expression, a frank fearlessness, and an easy wit that makes the book unusually good reading. It can not fail to interest any one who enjoys clear, sound thinking revealed in a delightful style of wit and strength...
...says the "Nation," "Dr. Eliot is not in reality an austere man. Even a slight intimacy reveals geniality, kindness, and humor; but his inability to trifle with the truth, his scorn of insincerity and affectation, and his courageous frankness of utterance sometimes frighten the timid. His spoken and written style is a faithful expression of his character. It is a style without applied ornament, without excess of kind, the utterance of a just and valiant man. Though strong-willed and self-assured, he sought to make his policies prevail not by the exercise of autocratic power, but by persuasion...