Word: stylist
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...theatre, at the "sisshore," they jabber at one another in a wild jargon, which appears at first glance totally incomprehensible; at second and ensuing glances, astonishingly familiar and funny. Author Gross, frizz-headed young feature man on the New York World, has been called, not without basis, a "great stylist." He is best understood when read aloud...
...close friend of Joseph Conrad for more than 10 years, and collaborated with him in several novels, such as "The Secret Agent", and "Romance." Since the death of Conrad, Mr. Ford has been called the finest stylist writing in English...
...hodge podge unique, but not altogether barren of interest. The economist might weep over two hundred dollar onions, or choke over a thousand dollar glass of water; the geologist might be alarmed over finding talc, even in California, to be a staple plantation product; but even the stylist would be intrigued by mountains "teaming with gold and platinum...
...many tinkling little Riviera tournaments and lost to Suzanne Lenglen and got appendicitis. She made no apologies for that match at Cannes. Mlle. Lenglen beat her because she is, still, a better match player. They hit the ball about equally hard; Miss Wills is somewhat the better stylist; Mlle. Lenglen is faster on her feet. But when they played at Cannes the sunburned gentlemen at the courtside were betting two-to-one against Miss Wills, and the odds, at their next encounter, will probably be the same. Odds are curious equations: they are often based on the personalities...
Thin Legs and Fat Legs trudged the golf hills. Sharp-faced Thin Legs was in his thirties; rubicund Fat Legs in his twenties. Thin Legs the wiry stylist, Fat Legs one of the most compact and well-oiled golfing units in the world. Where they walked, the sun had tarried long and close, until the hills steamed. They had walked, for miles, all others dropping. Thin Legs of Scotland, used to braw winds; Fat Legs of Georgia, fond of sweltering...