Word: style
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...outside of politics, Winston Churchill gives full vent to his literary genius. His book,* except for some too technical pages, is one of the most outstanding of its kind written since the war. The style is straightforward, easy, Churchillian?a style, be it said, that in the domain of politics more than once caused no inconsiderable alarm among his colleagues. No one should miss this book who takes an interest in pre-war European " fireworks," who is interested in British political figures of the period, who is interested in British naval policy...
About Lord Fisher. " From the very beginning his letters were couched in an affectionate and paternal style. 'My beloved Winston, they began, ending usually with a variation of 'Yours to a cinder, 'Yours till Hell freezes,' or 'Till charcoal sprouts,' followed by a P. S. and two or three more pages of pregnant and brilliant matter...
LADY INTO Fox?David Garnett? Knopf ($1.50). In fable form and prose style Mr. Garnett (son of Edward Garnett, the famous critic) relates the curious story of a Mr. Tebrick's wife who is turned into a fox. The poor man tries to treat the vixen as his wife. He plays cribbage.with her, reads to her from Clarissa Harlowe, eats delicate meals with her. Day after day she reverts more and more into a fox, and at last is killed by the hounds. Mr. Garnett might easily have been grotesque, sensational and melodramatic, or merely absurd. Instead, he has written...
Swimming: John Weissmuller, Illinois A. C., 200 yards free style...
...style and characterization are fully adequate, which is much more than can be said of the average present-day story of murder and mystery. Of course from some aspects the whole thing is absurd, but then what really exciting tale of this kind...