Word: style
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...whose acquaintance with the Atlantic is ordinarily slight. The two pages were headed, "The Road Away from Revolution, by Woodrow Wilson." The article was a general essay, but it showed that the former President has not lost his interest in world events. It bore the mark of the Wilson style, the Wilson vocabulary, the Wilson mode of thinking, with which everyone was familiar four years...
...burning thought descends to the inmost seat of being.' Let it work while I sleep." Ernest Boyd describes J. M. Barrie as " the sentimental Scot raised to the nth degree, Harry Lauder without kilts." Elinor Wylie remarks of George Eliot: "her dark brown binding got into her style." H. L. Mencken, voting for Eden Phillpotts, says candidly: "Phillpotts seems to me . . . the worst novelist now in practice in England; certainly no small eminence," while Christopher Morley explains his only putting down nine items instead of ten thus : " I thought it best to leave one place open in case Burton...
...afraid that the public wouldn't take him seriously when he wrote of the problems of adolescence and smalltown life in the Southwest. I had met him when his Boon Stop had just been published. He has changed little since then, except in the matter of his literary style...
...edifice is built in pure Flemish Renaissance style (Rubens), the material being of white stone and red brick, with a roof of blue slate. The project to rebuild the entire library owes its inception to the efforts of Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler and the National Committee of the United States...
...meter swim, free style: Arne Borg, of Sweden, 21 min. 35 5/10...