Word: stylistics
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...chosen to accompany Louis Gordon and the late Wilmer Stultz on their transatlantic flight in 1928. Real fame came to her in 1932 when she flew the Atlantic solo on the fifth anniversary of Lindbergh's Paris flight. Since then, as an airline executive, writer, woman's stylist and lecturer, Miss Earhart, with the aid of her astute husband, has kept the glitter of her fame untarnished. A devoted couple, he calls her "A. E.," she calls him "Gyp." They have no children...
...brilliant gentleman such as Professor Morison. The critic who confuses cultural restraint with congenital coyness ought to be drowned in his own pink ink. Samuel Eliot Morison is one of the ensiost and most sympathetic men to work with I have ever known. His ability as a stylist and an orator renders his lectures as interesting as their lueld, well-proportioned content. He dramatizes the past. One does not have to remember much of what he says; it simply becomes an integral part of one's working knowledge at first shot...
...race he motored to Princeton where Venzke and Bonthron had been training separately, golfing together. There he put on track clothes, limbered up for a few minutes while a crowd of 25,000 Alumni Day visitors poured into Palmer Stadium. At the gun, Venzke, best stylist of the three, set the pace. Cunningham passed him at 500 yd., Bonthron on the next curve. What happened next was so amazing to spectators that they could scarcely believe their eyes. Cunningham reeled off the fastest third quarter on record - 61.8. Then he really opened up and whipped around the last quarter...
Married.June Hamilton Rhodes, Manhattan publicity woman and stylist; and Ferdinand Doan Sanford, Manhattan lawyer; in Manhattan. The bride was given away by her good friend Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Roosevelt...
...three or four lighter pieces included in the book. Nothing could be funnier than "The little Hours," an account of Mrs. Parker's midnight rendezvous with La Rochefoucauld. The late Elinor Wylie, who sometimes wrote in a similar vein, was apt to betray her consciousness of the aristocratic stylist at work, but Mrs. Parker betrays nothing except her sense of derision...