Word: style
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...veto message was not a masterpiece of style, organization or logic. It was repetitious. But it was also devastating. Many a disinterested person who was obliged to read it admitted he was ready to quit midway and concede the debate to the President. There was, however, one sharp aphorism reminiscent of the Coolidge first known to fame. It was: "Government price fixing, once started, has alike no justice and no end. It is an economic folly from which this country has every right to be spared...
Female modern apartment denizens, as crowded for space as birds in a cage, viewed with delight a new style of furniture brought forth last week by artists at the Art Centre, 56th St., Manhattan. Artists, although all the word knows them to be useless, sometimes have fantastically practical ideas...
...Every foreign influence in art and culture will be combated to the last ditch, the principal ones being the American movies, German architecture and French modern literary modes. No artistic work will receive approval unless it is 100% Italian in style and inspiration...
...Master drawings usually calls to mind many academic heads, many chubby putti, many nudes in red chalk, all manifesting the years of devoted study passed in repeating the forms of the schools for the purpose of creating pretentious paintings which can be classified as being in the style of this or that master. This is a tradition left from the time when the term "Italian School" was used in a more general sense than it is today, to designate that type of painting most readily associated with the thought of an Art Gallery. Such drawings usually form part...
...manuscripts for the Union Essay Contest must be handed in today was also announced by the Union officials last night. These essays may treat any subject, but it was pointed out that those theses which have clearly been written for some course and are without any sort of style would be rejected. The first prize is to be $35 and the second...