Word: style
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Significance. The anonymous author writes with a bitter pen. His book is a slashing, venom-dipped arraignment of Jewry, heaving its stinking bulk out of a diseased ghetto. It is a savage, relentless, yet unimpassioned, picture. The style is violent, unembellished. A crammed, stark, narrative. Many of the characters are recognizable...
Mary Eaton's name is prominently displayed in the electric illumination above the playhouse. Her fine flavor of respectability made an excellent foil for Cantor's semi-Rabelaisian style of turbulence...
...winning plan is remarkably on a parallel with most of Hudson's ideas," he said, "but I do not think it is quite in his style. But I have been told on reliable authority that Hudson's plan was a close contender for the honor. The choice was made from seven or eight similar plans, of which Hudson's was undoubtedly one, though Dean Pound, a member of the Jury of Award did not know until after the decision was made that Professor Hudson had submitted a plan...
...tell me that Wills has a habit of grabbing an opponent around the neck with his left hand and then, as he pulls him in, Harry hooks his right to the body. Well, let me tell Wills, that he'd better not try that trick on me. That style of fighting is my dish. When he puts that left around my neck to pull me in, I'll slip right around his back and do some pulling myself. Then watch me smash my left into the stomach...
...Significance. Mr. Dibble tells a plain, straightforward story in a vigorous way. His vision is unclouded by prejudice, he is quick, observant, interested and interesting. His style is rather anecdotal than analytic, rather active than beautiful. Unassigned quotations are frequent. Meticulous accuracy of detail, one is tempted to suspect, occasionally is permitted to give way to the larger accuracy of the complete picture. His manner is rather journalistic than literary. His irony, running through the sketches in a constant undercurrent, is a little heavy. His stiletto lacks the keenness of Strachey's. But his subjects are well chosen...