Word: style
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Striking has been in style so long among laboring men that it no longer excites much comment except when it affects some industry in which the public is intimately concerned. But a strike of women exclusively is a novelty. That is what made unusually interesting the operators' strike in the New England Telephone and Telegraph Company
...thrown at him, say again that English had chosen him for a medium of expression, that he had not chosen English, I wondered if America had not chosen William McFee. This younger novelist of the sea is becoming of the United States in everything but appearance, speech and literary style...
...contains some things we have wanted to say ourself for a long time, but have never quite dared to for fear of being called crude. "An Oxford Symbol"--we may as well tell you beforehand that it is a corkscrew--is done in the best Morley style; Dame Quickly and Glssing add their bit; and the chapter on "Sir Kenelm Digby" is a rare delight, with its recipes and its appreciation of old quaintness. . We should like, for our own part, to see more of Sir Kenelm in the future--and we would be curious to observe what Morley would...
...becomes a leader of post-war German thought, only to be discovered in the end by a former friend and brought back to France and his original identity−sounds somewhat like the skeleton for an ephillipsop-penheim spine-shocker. But again, as in Suzanne and the Pacific, the style is the book−as sparkling, unique and gracile as Venetian glass. The translation by Louise Collier Willcox is fairly adequate though sometimes erratic. SINBAD−C. Kay Scott-Seltzer ($2.00). Greenwich Village−studio-parties− pseudo-intellectuals whose amatory affairs are as tangled as a pile of jackstraws...
...earlier work, his style seems a trifle smart. There is a niceness of phrase and a care for scientific accuracy which makes part of his writing seem artificial. This irritating quality disappears in the later essays, or rather, it is transformed into a convincing sureness. At no time does his writing lack vigor or interest. A study of the subtle changes in his style will go far to show the difference between the writer of promise and the author sure of himself...