Word: styling
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...naturally valuable only to those who have never travelled; for the author kept steadily in the beaten track of tourists, and describes more his own impressions of what he saw, than the places and objects themselves. It makes, however, an interesting volume, written generally in a lively and entertaining style. The fault in the style seems to us the constant use of the present tense, which in short narratives adds life, but continued in a book of over three hundred pages produces the effect of sweetness "long drawn...
...position in regard to the proposed N. E. Association. We stated then that the object of such an association was itself obscure, and criticised the undertaking to some extent. The Cornell Era, for November 3, refers to the first meeting of delegates to form the association in a style which, from its flippancy, we suspect to be intended for biting sarcasm. The Cornell paper revels in the fact that the meeting was a small one; it proceeds to say that the delegates wanted "some more noted college" to lend a little prestige to the affair." Therefore they "proceeded to attitudinize...
...latter would obtain the necessary garments at a trifling expense. The cost of a cap and gown is, however, not great, and when it is taken into consideration that they can be readily disposed of to the succeeding class the expense is reduced considerably below that which the present style of costume entails. Caps can be purchased in New York for $3.50 at retail, and still further reduction would be made if they were purchased in large numbers. The cost of gowns varies with the material used. Silk is the most costly, and its use would involve rather more...
...liberty, generosity, and civility." They are, he says, "distinguished by a lively imagination, having characters more resembling that of the Greeks than that of the Romans"; "from this source their language is frequently hyperbolical, and their pictures of objects, in any way interesting, highly colored"; so that the "Boston Style is a phrase proverbially used to denote a florid, pompous manner of writing"; "from this ardor," too, "springs a pronunciation unusually rapid," contracting "two short syllables into one," and pronouncing words "terminating with a liquid, particularly with l, m, or n, in such a manner as to leave...
...whole, may possibly be better than the extracts indicate, and it will certainly be worth reading from curiosity. As for the rest, we are strongly inclined to think that the niche in the temple of Fame reserved for the man who treats this subject in a masterly style is still unoccupied...