Word: style
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Wish-to retract my statements contained in a letter (parts of which were published in your columns) directed against your having a FASHION or STYLE department.t Your handling of this class of material in a recent issue has impelled me to do this...
...President said: "I am glad to see that your trousers are not flopping around on the ground." Recalling a similar episode last year, when some collegiate callers had worn floppy trousers and been chivvied about them by the President, a newspaper headlined: "BELL BOTTOM DRIVE MAY MAKE COOLIDGE STYLE CZAR...
...current number of the Advocate suggests, with two exceptions, that the editors are somewhat disposed to play safe. Mr. Stout, in "The Keepers of the Light", contributes an exceptionally good story: swift, idiomatic, colorful, with a good deal of sense of character. His style is perhaps too nervous and choppy--the sentences too persistently short and periodic, but it is a sound story, and a vivid one. And Mr. Barnett gives us some extremely readable, and sometimes witty, theatre-notes. Both of these contributors write as if they did it with pleasure, and as if they weren't afraid...
...Boott Prize is given in accordance with the bequest of Francis Boott, 1831, who preferred that the style of music, of the compositions submitted should be in the school of Mozart and Cherubini. The composition is to be a chorus of four or more voices, with or without solovoices, and with or without accompaniment...
...BEGINNERS-Henry Kitchell Webster-Bobbs-Merrill ($2.50). Edward Patterson, 45, married, father of Edith and Edward, suddenly breaks with a frantic gesture out of the insurance business by means of which he has been supporting his family in good style. Eagerness for variety makes him go so far as to try to sell a mechanical device for automobiles. Poor returns on this venture make it necessary for his daughter to leave school, his son to work through college. Edward Patterson gives up. He makes amends to his wife who resents his incipient affair with Ruth Ingraham, returns to insurance selling...