Word: styling
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...general style is so gorgeously "swell...
...only been within the last dozen or twenty years that the custom has been observed in anything like the present style...
...throws enough mud, some will surely stick; and so, Swinburne-like, wallows in a mire of coarse invective. Confessing that we do not see anything inherently nasty in the smoke of an aromatic herb, whatever may be the mental effects, we give a few selections as samples of the style of argument employed in the poorest grade of Western journalism: "If it was n't just for the name of the thing, I'd rather a man with a clean mouth would spit in my face than endure the foul breath of a smoker. . . . . A fine gentleman I would...
...applause, - rewards well merited by the excellence of the performance. We have not space to speak at length of the plays, but we must pay a passing compliment to Mr. McMillan, who took the leading parts in both, and distinguished them by so marked a difference of conception and style that a fresh actor seemed to walk upon the stage in the second play, - a difficult achievement for an actor who has to play two parts in the same evening. His acting was marked by a care for details and a full appreciation of all the "points" of the part...
...never known to speak in public. And last, but most important as an element of success, is placed honesty, which, considered as policy alone, is a necessity to any one who would for any length of time hold the respect of his clients. As a worthy example of this style of lawyer reference was made to Sumner, "who was true to his own convictions, unawed by popular clamor, or undismayed by private ill-will. If corruption was rife around him, it never stained his garments. If others were in the market, there was no price which could purchase him." Such...