Word: style
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Emily Newell Blair, vice chairman of the National Committee, was among those who urged a platform phrased in tabloid style. She also gave thought to the vice presidency, which seemed, as at Kansas City, to be the only real business before the convention. Mrs. Blair scoffed at the G. 0. P. "I could make a better Vice President than Senator Curtis," she said...
...Perry, Shaw & Hepburn, of Boston. Their previous works are few, but they illustrate an adroit understanding of the Colonial manner. The Greenough School in Dedham, Mass., The Waban School in Newton, St. Paul's Church in Newburyport, Mass.-these are neat examples of the trim New England style which indicate that the architects will be able to manage as fluent an interpretation of the more expansive symmetry that was popular in the South...
...amusing in the way of an acid commentary of life as it is lived by the landed gentry south of the Mason Dixon line. Many of her observations in "Dead Lovers Are Faithful Lovers" are shrewd, tart, and occasionally funny. But her quips, weighted as they are beneath a style which apparently goes back to Caedmon and Cynewulf for its model, have a difficult struggle to survive. They decorate but unfortunately do not obliterate the story, which is negligible and deals with a lady with the amorous sensibilities of a Belgian hare and a gentleman, her husband, who man ages...
...trying to give the combinations more finish. Coach E. J. Brown '96 has been working especially hard on getting his oarsmen to get a lot of snap in the finish of their strokes, having the crew do most of its hard pulling aft of the outriggers. The style of Leader's crews is just the opposite with the shell getting most of its drive on the catch of the stroke...
...result of this different style and the fact that the Yale crew will have its oars in the water longer, to the novice's eyes the Blue boat appears to be a smoother machine. Coach Brown's victory last year, however, demonstrated that a crew using his style could give its wash to a Leader combination over the full four mile course...