Word: sweeping
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Smith technique during parades: sweep the hat, inclusively, at nearby crowds. Grin squarely at this person, then that. Answer cries with a comeback now and then. Scan crowds at distant windows; single out one group, grin and wave the hat straight at the group. A distant concerted cheer will come back. People in the street look up. Everyone cheers...
...great skill. The mechanics of sex-transformation and passage of time are deftly, almost blandly, subordinated to the phenomenon of one and the same temperament reacting to the characteristics of disparate ages. Orlando is influenced by each new mode, but vivid memories give him (her) a dispassionate perspective. The sweep of generations offers every opportunity for satiric commentary; the experience of both sexes an admirable occasion for comparison. Mrs. Woolf seizes opportunity and occasion...
...mighty sweep of the mind of the sporting writer that lifts him to the heights of rhetoric and the ridiculous we cannot answer. But the mystery to the layman is not in the language, which is after all a first cousin to English, but in how the eye and brain of the reporter could identify the individual and yet follow the play, when Father and Brother, and Uncle Ralph failed miserably, and missed the touchdown because they were looking for Number...
...Pinta did not win the trans-Atlantic race. It took her 25 days to sweep across the treacherous calms of the ocean; the Nina and the Atlantic had both reached Santander earlier. The Pinta was manned by a crew of eight amateurs and a paid hand. One of the former, Alfred F. Loomis, described the excitements of their cruise in the current issue of the Sportsman...
...chronicle is complete−a tragic tale of fatality done into poetic prose. Dramatic in sweep, The Babyons is a distinguished piece of writing that glows with colorful finesse of concrete detail. Clemence Dane (Will Shakespeare, and A Bill of Divorcement) lives deep in Devonshire, where she feeds her guests cold ham for breakfast...