Word: style
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Dutch, Flemish, Spanish, French and British schools. Its chief aim is to reproduce several ; hundred of the world's recognized! masterpieces and to say enough about; them and their painters to give the: layman some notion of why they are considered great. 'This it entertainingly does. The style is wordy with adjectives, descriptive rather than critical, anecdotal rather than illuminative of fundamental principles. It might almost have been written by Giorgio Vasari. As a revelation of the mind of one of the leaders of modern painting, the Outline is strangely conventional and uninspired...
...entering the R. A. But his radicalism is more of subject than of method. His many and unique self-portraits (like Rembrandt, he is his own best model), and his bizarre Memorial to the Unknown Soldier incurred their share of academic criticism. Born in Ireland in 1878, his style was formed in Dublin, the Slade School, and the New English Art Club group-a vigorous, sculpturesque plein-air tradition, intent on the solution of technical problems...
Last year the 1926 team held Andover to a scoreless tie, but the Freshmen showed a rather ragged style of play when put up against Andover's well developed forward passing game...
Both of these men were victorious in the semifinals yesterday, Wheeler's defeat of Parke Cummings '25 attracting the attention and applause of a considerable number of spectators. Wheeler opened the match in his brilliant style, sending over a fast, accurate service, lofting the ball into the back courts, and chopping it into the corners. He took the first two sets...
Word came to the U. S. that William Henry Ellis, who preferred to style himself Guillermo Enrique Eliseo, died in Mexico City. Mr. Ellis was one of the most remarkable men who ever acted as agent for the State Department. He was known chiefly for the famous incident in which he delivered a commercial Treaty from this country to King Menelik of Abyssinia. But his unusual history began much earlier...