Word: style
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Birtwell's style affects the colorful and dramatic. By deft combinations of his typewriter keys he can invest an incident of seeming insignificance with an ours of mystery, a glamor of confidential secrecy, or a cloak of magnificent magnitude. At times he adopts, and very successfully, the attitude of an author of "Things I Shouldn't Tell". The fact that he never does tell them only renders his writings more interesting to the reader...
...GENGHIS KHAN" has all the appurtenances of a genuine history book. Not only has it a Latin quotation prefixed to it but it has also a whole separate section of notes and a very full bibliography. It has managed, however, to escape the customary heavy historical style and reads suspiciously like a historical novel rather than a genuine history. And Mr. Lamb has seen fit to omit substantiating footnotes...
...from the truth. The story of Genghis Khan, the struggles of his childhood, the hardships of his early manhood, his growing success, and finally his great achievements culminating in the acquisition of an empire stretching from China to Arabia, could not fail to be interesting. Mr. Lamb's style, while not distinguished, is thoroughly adequate for the subject. It is fluent and easy to read, although the author has a rather distressing habit of omitting the verb from short sentences from time to time, a la francaise...
Personally, I except Yale will win, but Harvard has a chance, a narrow, fighting chance. Yale's offensive strength is directed mainly through its opponent's tackles and guards. An alert Crimson line can stop this style of play to a great extent. Yale's plays are not tricky. They are sound fundamental plays built upon power and team work. Now it is interesting to note that, with the excepting of Purdue, which not met Harvard before Coach Horween's team has struck its stride, no team has raised havoc with Harvard's forward wall through the medium of straight...
...following year, the newspapers observe that the Elis were quick to path, and commend the style of play that brought one Yale field goal to win over three Harvard touchdowns that failed of goal. Under the old scoring system this plan was in force; the idiosyncrasies of the system are seen in 1881, when Yale did not score, but won because Harvard made four safeties...