Word: style
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Meanwhile on top of the Knob in a huge circus tent crowded with a thousand guests, steaming with the warm smell of barbecue, Southern style, Uncle Alf held court. The baying of the hounds grew fainter outside. Uncle Alf rambled on until dawn, delighting the merrymakers with reminiscences. Scores of uniformed Negroes bustled about, serving the immense banquet to which ten sheep, ten pigs, 500 pounds of beef, had contributed. All "the fixin's" were there...
Martha Norelius in a swimming meet in New Brunswick, N. J., broke by four seconds the world's record for a 300-metre free style. Her time...
...lives in a "dandy little Italian-villa-style bungalow with two bathrooms . . . a slit in the wall for the disposal of safety razor blades . . . garbage incinerator . . . electric washing machine...
...Book of the Month Club singles out Author Bowen because of her "news of the post-War generation" (it lacks red blood) and because of her exquisite style. The news has been reported before; the style, like the pension-hotel, is afflicted with anemia...
...present ambition," she asserted, "is to become an authoress, but after 14 years of writing for tabloid journals I feel that my style is molded the wrong way. In the newspaper game everything is written in a hurry for people who read in a rush. After helping people for so long a time with their marital and pre-marital difficulties, I need help myself...