Word: style
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Proponents of war, if any still dare so to style themselves, have excused the slaughter of millions on Malthusian grounds of reasoning; but not even the most heartless science can acquit humanity of guilt in the destruction of its noblest attainments. And still the nations, without even the wisdom of a burnt child, rush to heap ever higher their piles of weapons, that they know must inevitably, unless some power can stop the insane contest, fall upon them and bury them once more...
...anything of much pertinence. But the mythical approach of spring with its flowers and tree and other shapsodic subjects, and perhaps the fact that it was brought to his attention that Professor Pray is to lecture at 9 o'clock this morning in Robinson Hall on the style of Le Notre in gardening as it shows itself outside of France have led him to say a few remarks upon the subject-- non sequiturs, if you must, of which the Vagabond was accused last year...
...doing the city wide bombing, Chief of Police Hughes could only guess, but doubtless it was some liquor and gambling racketeers who resented having the most criminal city in the U. S. publicized as a sudden convert to law & order. The bombers' technique appeared to derive from a style of bombing inaugurated last autumn by the Chicago Association of Candy Jobbers, whose methodical representatives found little to deter them from pitching "pineapples" (hand grenades) into independent goody factories...
...Comparison of Style of Le Notre with Earlier and Later Formal Garden Styles." Professor Pray, Robinson Hall...
...Smoke and Steel), and biographer (Abraham Lincoln, The Prairie Years), in Boston, his hair falling in a "harmlessly affected manner to give the man an air of privacy," gave a reading of his works in accustomed eccentric style. A large guitar was hung around his neck; at the end of his reading, he took this and strummed it while he sang old songs about the West...