Word: style
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sufficiently established to warrant Mrs. Atherton's use of the idea is another matter. In general, the book has been well received. Says Dr. Henry Seidel Canby, Editor of The Literary Review: "It is as a social description, done with a power that beats into shape a turgid style, that one must praise Black Oxen...
...tools of the typographer, according to Mr. Dwiggins, are simplicity, the choice of a legible and artistic style of type, and the centering of the whole around a certain point...
...influence of the Oxford debaters is still being felt in eastern universities. The gradual departure from traditional methods of debating and conformity to the Oxford style is not a mere aping of the English manner but is an awakening to advantages previously overlooked...
This merely indicates the overwhelming need for college men in politics. Only in the colleges has the fine art of saving nothing in a profound and impressive style been cultivated to comparable perfection. This is at once the pride of the students and the despair of he professors, but it is evident that the latter are unnecessarily perturbed. The future for those really adopt is magnificent,-the Senate awaits the true artists...
...rest of the world. In its hardship their life resembled that of the Pilgrims, but continued over a much longer period of time. The costumes which were designed by Miss Pauline Hatfield, also reflect this isolation. The women continue to wear as gala dress the clothes which were in style at their marriages, and it has been said that an acute observer can in this way estimate the date of marriage of each one. The men wear the high white collars, colored vests, and boots of a period prior to that of the play...