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...sufficiently established to warrant Mrs. Atherton's use of the idea is another matter. In general, the book has been well received. Says Dr. Henry Seidel Canby, Editor of The Literary Review: "It is as a social description, done with a power that beats into shape a turgid style, that one must praise Black Oxen...
...really capable. Few can reach Senator Sheppard's mark of ten hours; none have threatened the world's record hung up by LaFollette back in the turgid days of 1908, when, without prompting, he said nothing continuously for eighteen hours and twenty-three minutes. On the other hand, Senator Sheppard eked out his discourse with selections from the Covenant of the League of Nations,-there being nothing else at hand sufficiently long to be helpful,-but these are effete days. Another contender, the pious Senator Brookhart, intends to read the Bible from cover to cover. It is an intriguing prospect...
...which distrubs the Modern Church is the theme for a series of brilliant, penetrating and able sketches of English Churchmen. The charm of stylistic finesse, literary taste, and epigrammatic terseness can best be appreciated in the books of A Gentleman With a Duster when we compare them with the turgid, club-footed fumbling of the author of the pitiful Mirrors of Washington. There is a difference between a blunderbuss and a Lewis...
Colonel Higginson began his lecture by a definition of what was characterized as the "Boston Style" before the rebellion, and showed how this had become florid, almost turgid, because of its origin and developement from the firm belief of the Boston public in the literary superiority of Dr. Johnson, and because of its foundation in the Latin. It had an easy flow of eloquent words, but was absolutely lacking in conciseness and brevity. This style was the personification of that inflated diction which required translation by inverse ratio and which Dr. Johnson, Rufus Choate, and Carlyle to a certain extent...
...number contains two other prose contributions, both of them very short: "My Unknown Foe" is somewhat turgid; the "Hungry Sandwich Man" is an outline descriptive sketch...