Word: suggesters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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President Wilson would have known better. As head of the University he might have objected to clubs, but to trousers, never! Nor would he have brought himself so close to the old, old witticism as to suggest (even very delicately) a pair of suspenders to keep up the trousers of his Princeton callers...
...about King Alfonso and I have no doubt most of it can be substantiated as matter of fact, but I can very well understand how someone who takes the other side of the controversy might sincerely think that you were not stating facts but expressing editorial opinion. I merely suggest the danger which, of course, you have appreciated long ago, and trust that you will be as skillful in avoiding it in the future as you have in the past...
...eager to investigate the complexities of involved political questions, and his military training was calculated to give him a strange distaste for such investigations." A caricature more libelous could hardly be conceived. To call Lee a simple-minded man is as unjust as in these days of Modernism to suggest that he had a perfect trust in God's providence...
...Significance. Mr. Firkins hesitates to suggest Howells as elementary schooling in American life for foreigners or students in the 21st Century. He recommends that they begin on "some inferior writer." Similarly, for persons unacquainted with Howells, Mr. Firkins' finely wrought literary study can be read with profit only after preliminary investigation of Howells' own work and of his other commentators. This book is a last critical word...
Just as the form of the sonnet seems to lend itself to reflections on love and beauty, so does the very lift and swing of the limericks suggest ideas which would be absolutely impossible on the printed page. One cannot imagine Tennyson producing limericks Or Milton. The thought is revolving. On the other hand, the conjunction of Rabelais and blank verse is equally incongruous...