Word: wearingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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TIME in its issue of April 23, printed a letter from J. F. Bassett of Boston in which he writes it would not be fitting for President Coolidge to humiliate himself by flying with Lindbergh in "those brown overalls that aviators wear...
Bernarr ("Body-Love") Macfadden, publisher of the Manhattan Evening Graphic and other periodicals which wear the disguise of shockingly slight physicul-turism, last week purchased a school for boys, The Castle Heights Military Academy, at Lebanon, Tenn. What could have been Bernarr Macfadden's motive in this act, few could say. He himself announced that his friend, Lieutenant William Goodson of the U. S. Army, would run the school much as it has been run in the past, except that its curriculum would include several courses in "physical culture...
...replied that the shot was not made that would kill him. ..." Scenes of hideousness are frequent, gallantry omnipresent. A cool sense of the pictorial dominates a style metaphorically fine (if you think airplanes "steam by"). Non-belligerents will enjoy an atmosphere of accuracy (if you think English soldiers wear "mufti"). The suggestion of continual pageantry runs pleasantly throughout the book-a relief from recent War stories, whether patriotic or sordid. Author Jacks might have been to the Crusades...
...field of play. R. U. M. Whortleberry, graduate student in the Cornell School of Dentistry, who is an expert at the noisy collection of superfluous bluebooks, will beam happily at any question and bring in the ink, Q. Caboose, graduate student from N. Y. U. who hates undergraduates, will wear pince-nez glasses and a soiled collar. And Johan Wisteria, former student of the drama at Yale, the Tubercular Cough in several plays by Eugene O'Neill, will be identified by his stage whisper and his inability to diagnose approaching rupture until it has been carefully explained...
...posterity, trapped by the author's undeniable virtuosity in the spoken word, will listen and believe that the mechanistic ass was typical of the age. And posterity may not detect this flaw: "typical" American butter-and-eggers idolized in Lindbergh all the heroism which their own ready-to-wear existence lacked, and would always prefer a Lindbergh to the "honest-to-God master genius" who invented the electric ice box. Author Lewis has concocted the synthetic Schmaltzian horror, only to flay it for having no imagination beyond its mechanistic world, and yet he, concocter, flayer, is a victim...