Word: style
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rather than asserted; but the implication is (as it was in This Freedom), "Back to the home!" But Bread succeeds where This Freedom failed: in its fidelity to the actual conditions of life and its lack of sweetie-sweetiness. A long book, crammed with detail, written without grace, without style, with little humor ?but highly readable...
...begin active training for" his fight with Dempsey. In Buenos Aires, Felix Bunge, Firpo patron, sheltered his protege's boxing science against the typhoon of criticism that has swept down upon it from the north. Senor Bunge exhibited to newspaper men cinemato-graphic analyses of Dempsey's style, in opposition to which, he stated, Firpo's technique had been specially evolved. Boasted Bunge: " We know Dempsey, while Dempsey does not know us." Meanwhile, Dempsey is working with the blare of trumpets silenced. Although he is sometimes seen at the Saratoga race track, near his camp...
...Belgian note is written in much the same style as the French. The British proposals are left in the lurch. The Belgian Government suggests a new Reparations program with new German guarantees. To the British Government these suggestions, while practicable, would lead only to further procrastination, whereas the constituent feature of the British note was " immediate action " to save Germany from imminent financial, economic, geographical and social disruption...
...cent. American live and love among the cactus and chaparral; Oroastus?a Greek Tragedy as presented by the senior class in classics at the University of Squeegee (S. or N. D., or even Kans. or Ill.); an Ibsen takeoff; historical drama of various sorts; the Russian theatre (Old Style) full of knouts and beautiful Nihilists and (New Style) one of those realistic things in which all the characters suffer from acute hydrophobia and pass their time poisoning each other in underground lodgings; an ideal scenario for the modern movie of uplift that grips poor old marriage right by the neck...
...purpose of the Society to demonstrate that the mandolin, far from being necessarily only a toy, is a serious, dignified and important instrument, one well fitted to satisfy the highest artistic demands of music. The Society has a band of one hundred expert players, who render in grandiose style arrangements of the compositions of the great composers. Listeners at the Berlin concert commented admiringly on the great, noble tone of the bass mandolins-almost organlike in richness-which moved in stately measures beneath the delicate, tintillating lacework of the smaller instruments...