Word: style
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Jackets: "If one takes note of the jackets which the King wears, and they are well worth attention, the subjection of fashion to style may be seen...
Individualism:"There are various kinds and degrees of individuality in dress. The term may be applied where a man selects a style of costume which has long since gone out of fashion. It may be used where another cultivates the grotesque in garb...
...jackets carry a naval trimness in design. His trousers are never creased down the front-a fashion started in the Army, but are pressed at the side and follow the sailor style of an easy rolling effect...
...chief merit of the book in the eyes of this reviewer is the negative one of restraint. The author does not endow his canine hero with complicated powers of reasoning and intricate emotional capacities, but presents a simple annal of his actions. The style is of a simplicity almost crude in parts but effective in the scenes of action...
...Bertrand Russell do not suggest the heights of the ancient Olympus. But they, along with Neitzsche, make better reading. Possibly one thinks too much of those beautiful Victorian beards. But as I write this I think of Havelock Ellis who has the beard, the science, and the literary style too. From this group we cannot exclude Henry Adams...