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Word: style (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Usage:

...sign outside the store advises the passers by that helmets are the latest style, but, although fow have been observed about the Square, it is to be assumed that purchasers are keeping their headgear in their rooms...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD SQUARE MERCHANT SCORES COUP BY HELMET SALE | 2/17/1927 | See Source »

...book is indeed enormous, covering as it does Napoleon's early life in Corsica, the tremendous activity of his years of power, and the six years of solitude in St. Helena, which are described as fully as any other period in his life. The tempo and the style are swift, an artistic device to convey the energy of the subject. It is successful too in suggesting the development of Napoleon's plans with the progress of his achievements. No premature dreams of world dominion are attributed to the Artillery officer when he is still intriguing unsuccessfully for mastery of Corsica...

Author: By Paul BUDSALL ., | Title: NAPOLEON, by Emil Ludwig. Translated by Eden and Cedar Paul, Boni and Liveright, New York. $4.00. | 2/17/1927 | See Source »

With this pinch of salt Playwright Guitry has seasoned his most recent play, and to the Queen's taste. The comedy of manners, which surrounds it, mounted in the style of the seventies of the eighteenth century, with all the delightfully feminine thrills and furbelows which attended...

Author: By R. K. L., | Title: THE CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 2/17/1927 | See Source »

California no longer needs to look to France or any other European country for "guidance in finance, in governmental affairs, in style, literature or art." In all these matters the West is now self-sufficient...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: In Los Angeles | 2/14/1927 | See Source »

...seasoned TIME subscriber for a long while?I enjoyed your quiz tonight. A friend and I tuned in on the second question, and neither of us had heard previous quizzes. However, I recognized the TIME style and offered to wager that TIME had prepared the quiz...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Offered to Wager | 2/14/1927 | See Source »

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