Word: styling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Gilbert & Sullivan operettas, The Yeomen of the Guard, or The Merryman and His Maid is nearest in style to grand opera, gives able singers most to get their teeth into. Last week The Yeomen was the offering of the eighth annual play festival in the plushy, chandeliered, 61-year-old Opera House in Central City, Colo...
...Foreigners report an improvement in Chinese fighting technique. Chinese trenches are no longer individual pit-holes, but are long, connected "Western style" ditches. Furthermore, Chinese troops are now transferred by night instead of day, as they used to be, and hence are not so severely bombed from the air. Machine-gunning by the new Japanese recruits is reported as bad, while the percentage of Japanese artillery duds on all fronts is rising...
...regards to the letters you received from Canada about your reports on the Royal Visit [TIME, June 5, et seq.] might I add-I have read TIME for many years. Your style has never changed. In addition to your curt, clear and complete style of reporting news, I must add the words fair and honest...
Though many thought this terse style highly unlike the author of Mein Kampj, and very much like the Political Section of the German Intelligence, the story did much to make the French jittery. They frankly expected a Danzig coup last weekend. The week-end passed without one, but early this week so many alarming rumors (and war preparations) had spread over Europe that Adolf Hitler apparently decided that the hour was not quite as propitious as he had thought. An "authorized" (but unidentified) Nazi spokesman delivered an extraordinary announcement, prompted by Neville Chamberlain's statement to the House...
...throw of Founder Green's hand press. It is now ruled in its obituary policy and otherwise by sober, stamp-collecting Publisher Henry H. Conland, who joined the paper as an office boy 39 years ago, and Editor Maurice S. Sherman, a good-natured fisherman whose editorial style is compared with that of the Courant's most famed leader writer, Mark Twain's crony, Charles Dudley Warner. Together they have helped restore respectability to the "Old Lady of State Street," who lost it briefly after the World War in a red-&-yellow whirl under the editorship...