Word: styling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...outdo The Ancient Mariner. At Brooklyn's Polytechnic Prep, he put out a handwritten gossip sheet called The Daily Glonk. But he did not really want to be an editor; he yearned to be another Ty Cobb. Though an inept ballplayer, Hadden modeled his batting style and his energetic walking style after his hero, and affected a side-of-the-mouth Brooklyn accent that he thought suitable for ballplayers. Elected editor of the weekly Record at Hotchkiss School, he wistfully wrote his mother: "I'd rather get one 'H' [in baseball] than be editor...
...Death came . . .") as a trademark. The double-jointed adjectives and inverted sentences of the early days of TIME were tricks that he and Luce, both Greek scholars, had learned from Homer. Hadden applied them so brilliantly that the double-distilled result was hailed as a "new" style, and became TIME'S prose pattern, changing gradually as the magazine matured...
...name of the character, followed by a word or two indicating his manner. Explanatory passages are short. Such methods will annoy some readers, who will feel that they are not getting a book, but only the outline of one. In a sense, they will be right. The style of Jean Barois is only the skeleton of the method Martin du Gard fleshed out in The Thibaults, but it is made of good solid bones...
Although Yokum's Moon is just under the horison, the Outing Club plans to stage a "Sadle Hawkins Race" at its First Annual Picnic, Dogpatch Style" from 3 to 8 p.m. tomorrow at Cabot Reservation, two miles north of Waltham...
Four football medleys in the usual style stirred up nostalgia for the fall. Finnegan's Brown and Columbia medleys, particularly, were handled in the Band's best tradition...