Word: style
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...meter swim, free style: Arne Borg, of Sweden, 14 min. 14 4/10...
...time the story was ended it was, of course, too late in the day to execute Kai Lung-and so the days went on-in spite of the degraded persistence of the effete Ming-Shu, Kai Lung always managed to turn aside with a novelette in one style or another, the blade of the axe of doom whenever it rested too unpleasantly close to his neck. At last, in fact, the tables were turned indeed-the evilly nimble feet of Ming-Shu entrapped into a fatal error of judgment that implicated Shan Tien-Ming-Shu took Kai Lung...
...meter run: Edwin Wide, Sweden, 8 min. 30 2-5 sec. ¶ 100-yard swim for women, free style: Gertrude Ederle, of New York, 1 min. 5 sec. ¶ 150-yard back stroke for women: Sybil Bauer, of Chicago, 2 min. 1 2-5 sec. ¶ 100-yard back stroke for women: Sybil Bauer, of Chicago, 1 min. 26 3-5 sec. ¶ 500-meter swim, free style: John Weissmuller, of Chicago, 6 min. 55 sec. ¶ 220-yard swim for women, free style: Miss Gertrude Ederle, New York, 2 min. 49 sec. ¶ 15-mile automobile racing on dirt...
...Significance. Though a sincere admirer of the classics and the beauty and strength of the past, Mr. Lindsay has endeavored through his career to get away from the conventional pseudo-Victorian style of poetry that devotes itself entirely to imitating Gems of English Literature and to write about American subjects in an American way. He is neither a hyperintellectual nor a blood-and-Kiplingite, nor a mere experimenter with unusual rhythms. He is a poet, and a true poet, and a great deal of his work will probably last much longer than some of our elaborately sophisticated cognoscenti believe...
...notes and essays by the most brilliant young literary man in England. Pleasant, intelligent, rather entertaining little papers. The astonishing thing about them is that they are so mild. So very mild. The book might have been written by almost any bright young gentleman who chose to model his style on that of E. V. Lucas. Did you ever think you were about to degust a genuine pre-War cocktail and then discover as you swallowed that the beverage was strictly...