Word: style
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...certainly have to "hand it to you" now. I used to think your style was too good, too far over the heads of the multitude to make any lasting impression. But evidently you have even arrested the attention of the editors of our dreadful Chicago Tribune. Look at this two-page ad. out of today's (Sunday) paper. It copies the TIME style exactly. Look at the words under the picture...
Many a newspaper has adopted similar style. Style is every man's property. To imitate it is no felony. And Newsstand Buyer Kimbark doubtless errs in ascribing authorship of Chicago Tribune advertisements to Chicago Tribune editors. The copy in question was doubtless prepared by agency specialists...
...pornographic magazines you have yet managed to give in your own columns a sniff of their odor. You occasionally lug into your news items terms not usually found outside of medical journals. You have an irritating habit of dubbing people with names according to their calling or accomplishments, a style of writing that gives an impression of veiled sarcasm from which no one is immune. Your latest accomplishment has been to find (issue for July 4) a little mud to throw at Col. Charles Lindbergh in your discussion of his "signed" story, classing him with Peaches Browning and Ruth Snyder...
...Patrick's abduction was by a whole trainload of cinema folk hurrying to a coast convention. Mr. Flinn's recovery was rapid and happy. And to reward virtue in true cinema style, Mr. DeMille and friends took Dr. Patrick for a thorough inspection of filmland, including even a Mack Sennett bathing beauty scene. And they gave him, together with his ticket back to Marceline, Mo., a fee whose proportions will not be approached until Marceline, Mo., breaks out with simultaneous epidemics of mumps, colic, babies and pink...
Written in the mood, somewhat in the setting of South Wind (sophisticated classic by Norman Douglas) this book has some of its characteristics-a sharp satire, a style of suave surprises. But through its pages blows not a strong and pungent sirocco; instead a slow and tepid wind in which insects may hover lazily. Author Faulkner in this casual and breezy work seems always on the verge of an important irony which he never produces. His second novel is a step up in technique, a step down in importance from his powerful Soldiers...