Word: traced
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...theatre, Robert Emmet Sherwood develops ramifications. He sets up a satire on royalty, gilds it with hot romance and stripes the second act with melodrama. One hears an undertone of Bolshevism and unmistakable echoes of the derision that dogged Queen Marie across our country. Mr. Sherwood dares destroy any trace of consistency by marrying off his Princess to her plumber's son at the end with as glossy a happy ending as ever was pasted on the movies which Mr. Sherwood criticizes so capably when he is not editing Life or commenting on music for The New Yorker. Or writing...
...literature is untenable. For the rest, those who are no more fitted to the study of English than of any other college subject, those who have picked English because they could not make up their minds what they wanted to study, or those who would rather read novels than trace historical tendencies or spend their afternoon in a laboratory in other words, the larger part of the men who are concentrating in English a chance to browse is practically synonymous with a chance to loaf. But for the "constraining effect of divisional examinations" they would never attempt what little reading...
...Blue Boy, Gainsborough's polite urchin, wore his own shiny silk breeches and not a shabby imitation. The cracks across a Michaelangelo fresco were so perfectly reproduced by the lines across the facsimile, that, until inspected from a distance of less than six inches, it seemed possible to trace them with an inserted fingernail. In actual finish, the facsimiles are smooth; although they catch and reflect light with the warm lustre of oil paints or the glitter of watercolors they do not reproduce roughnesses of brushwork. But such roughnesses leave tiny shadows against each other; for the eye, this...
...Vermeer der Delft has in some part, been responsible for recent arguments about his works. A popular young painter, it was his misfortune to have lived in Delft in a studio near the site of a powder magazine. This, one disastrous day in 1675, exploded, removing all trace of Jan Vermeer, together with the majority of his works. In the excitement of losing so much good gunpowder, it was possible for people to forget the loss of an artist. The few of his paintings, about 40, which were not destroyed, remained obscure until 1871 when they came to the attention...
Around the Caribbean and down the whole continent south of it lies an empire which the U. S. would never want to conquer by shrapnel, but which it never will conquer by checkbooks and sales talk so long as there is any trace of powder in the air. The pertinacity of a Sandino in Nicaragua (see p. 16) is momentarily embarrassing. The alleged economic offensive of European industrialists?British, German, Belgian?is momentarily disturbing. But both of these developments merely serve to emphasize the business wisdom of the President's trip. Both enhance the opportunity he has created to interpret...