Word: touching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or touch not the Pierian spring...
...then really. How he knows things you cannot say; he writes so directly, without fuss and feathers, with so little explanation of himself. He is that rare bird, an intelligent young man who is not introspective on paper. His stories are often incomplete; just facets of life, color and touch, like Katherine Mansfield's "stories," only more masculine, and (sometimes) brutally natural. Make no mistake, Ernest Hemingway is somebody; a new, honest, un-"literary" transcriber of life-a Writer...
...fifth number of the Advocate in its improved form, however, the tensed muscles of early detractors have perceptibly relaxed, and a noticeable feeling grows among the unliterary and the extra-porticum that the paper, rather more than ever, has something individual to say. Physically, is is crisper to the touch, its Caslon old-face pleasanter to the eye. As to delights beyond the eye and finger-tips, the new Advocate seems to carry behind it a surer authority and a genuine masculinity. Abandoning abstraction, the creation of several new departments, the brightening up of the old, and a kind...
...world, TIME has nothing what ever to offer, except the comments of its staff and they have not the faintest interest. I have seen the magazine now and then and have frequently found it inaccurate and occasionally badly biased, besides being silly in hopes of achieving the light touch...
There is no telling exactly what it will come to, for the touch of years, lawyers and markets upon an estate in liquidation is more often than not a shriveling one. But when it was announced last week that the will of Publisher Frank Andrew Munsey designated the leading U. S. art museum, the Metropolitan in Manhattan, as his residuary beneficiary, it was apparent that art had received its greatest single gift-in dollars-of all time...