Word: style
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Vare piled up in the Philadelphia pri-mary last Autumn against George Wharton Pepper and Gifford Pinchot. Elated, Candidate Moore and friends talked about another assault on the Vare machine at the November election, with an independent ticket. Philadelphians could thus look forward to two months more of Vare-style campaigning, which consists in spending dollars by the hundreds of thousands. A pro-Vare organ that will presumably continue is The Young Republican, among whose targets in the primary campaign were...
...Spain recognizes in her greatest best seller, Vincente Blasco Ibaņez, a natural genius of vivid, soaring imagination, of exceptional descriptive talent, albeit unreliable in history, while his loose, inaccurate style has prevented him, in spite of all good will (I write advisedly), from admission to the Spanish Academy of Letters...
...scholastic difficulties. This fall, cleared of all academic entanglements, he is ready to resume his position of the late 1925 encounters. Despite his 195 pounds Turner is one of the fastest line men on the University squad and is particularly effective when playing out of the line, a style ofcenter play becoming more and more imperative with the increasing openness of attack now in vogue...
Under their respective constitutions four political units of the United States style themselves Commonwealths: Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Virginia and Kentucky. Since the time of the Revolutionary war under four different constitutions the legal title of Penn's Woods has been the "Commonwealth of Pennsylvania." To be technically correct in speaking of the United States, it should be said the nation consists of 44 States and four Commonwealths...
...Ruffu Jr., was being joggled along, uncomfortably enthroned upon a curious vehicle. Sitting beside him, dressed up as Father Neptune, a Broadway comedian named Eddie Dowling bowed and grimaced and made remarks which were inaudible. Behind this incongruous pair, an interminable succession of similar vans, decorated in fantastic style to resemble skyscrapers, vegetable gardens, bird cages, beaches, groves or prairie lands, conveyed 74 young women along the corduroy boardwalk. Each of the young women was in some suitable disguise which was really almost no disguise at all. On foot, interspersed between the dangerously gaudy floats, more than 1,000 bandsmen...