Word: style
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...This anthem is written in the style of the Gilbert and Sullivan operettas and sounds very similar to one of their songs...
...some, "Lord Raingo" may appear a magnificent exposition of realism. But it is a case of homeopathic remedy administered in an allopathic dose. Mr. Bennett definitely crosses the line where realism merges into tautological flatulence. Elegence of style, felicity of phrase, restraint, suggestion these prerequisites to delight in reading, all are submerged in an ocean of microcosms, and uninteresting ones at that...
Defeat of an attempted bank robbery--American style--in Liverpool has resulted in odious comparisons. One gathers that the British press believes the police system of the United States to be an object of both tears and laughter. They do these things, say the Englishmen, much better abroad. American police are well trained they admit, and they admit, well equipped; but with half the equipment the British manage to get twice the results. Somewhere, somehow, there has been a mistake...
...card, not a trick, but a lady this queen, Roumanian, and very very "picturesque"! She will not set a style in gray hats, she will not play tennis for money, even in Boston--yet she will eat American food and meet whom ever Mayor Walker can collect to make a hen mot worthy the royal tradition...
Displaying a fast, versatile backfield behind a hard-charging line, with the two parts functioning in machine-like style, Brown crushed a bewildered Lehigh team by 32 to 0. Randall was a terror to the Lehigh defense, tearing through big holes in the line to reap gain after gain. Edes, at quarterback, was effective in running back kick, taking the ball on the dead run, and attaining his full speed almost at once. The cooperation of the line and backfield was excellent, and the Erunonians give every promise of being hard to stop in later games...