Word: style
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sharp-breaking drop; the Red and Blue twirler mystified the Crimson hitters during the greater part of the game, and was especially effective with men on bases, when he tricked the batters into offering at bad balls and giving the fielders easy chances which were handled in workmanlike style...
...ninth, Lord opened the proceedings with a hit, but Armstrong, Thompson and Cole disposed of Lord and Tobin in speedy style, and Chauncey's fly was easy for Thompson...
...Shakespeare's plays," he continued, "The Taming of the Shrew,' with its broad comedy and somewhat coarse wit, should lend itself best to presentation in modern dress. With this alteration, however, the psychology of the actors must completely change, for instead of acting in sweeping gestures and self conscious style which is always necessary in costume plays the players will have to change to the modern style of repression in which their actions must be cloaked behind a carefully cultivated finesse...
THIS ECSTASY-Elizabeth Stern- J. H. Sears ($2.50). The title of this tale, the purple cover which surrounds its 384 pages, are good hints. In a style which appears to be the offspring of a union between A. S. M. Hutchinson and the King James Version of the Bible, Author Stern, in the first person, unfolds the humdrum history of a young writer, later turned advertising man, later turned merchant. His unimportant love affairs, his inconsequential pokings at life with a stick, fail to acquire emotional value or intensity by virtue of the magenta draperies which muffle the recital...
...worthy of his theme. There are occasional exceptions, but they are unimportant and are enormously overbalanced by the many passages in which the poetry is successful. One of the surest signs of Mr. Robinson's rank as a poet is the individuality of his rhythm; the "personality" of his style. He puts great stress (more than is commonly observed) on the sound of words, he uses a large number of feminine endings with a very special effect, his verse is never monotonous, and its melody with a peculiar, slightly remote, cadence of its own, is nearly always delightful. "Tristram" possesses...