Word: crushing
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...materialism. Compared with Mr. Brook's writing of last year, this retains the valuable part of his subtlety and delicacy of expression, and shows a desirable gain in clearness of outline and definition of thought, even if the style is not yet quite natural. J. L. Warren's the Crush" is somewhat conventional; F. Schenck's "The Pall of the Wild" is cleverly named, and, like R. M. Arkush's "Sleep Fifteen Minutes after Luncheon," strikes one as much truer to Sophomore human nature than one would like to imagine it. Both are well written. "Ex-Machina," the remaining piece...
...while the chariots pass along, the people as well as the bridge groan. An effective measure might be taken by the football authorities to prevent such outrage by detailing a force of police at the north end of the bridge with instructions to halt all vehicles until the great crush should be over...
...literary conscience is especially inflamed against "crass stupidity in journalistic criticism." E. Bernbaum and W. A. Green grow positively heated over the ineptitudes of Boston, and other, critics of Ibsen and Shaw, and crush with grimness the wretched Grub Street on their wheel. Nay, more: they--especially Mr. Green--illustrate what journalistic criticism should be.--easily colloquial, anecdotal, popular, yet sound. Of course, the critics could rejoin that such writing means time and work: does the public want it badly enough to pay for it? Mr. Bernbaum, by the way, is depressed over the American public, is past even regretting...
Another objection is that the women will not be suitably gowned for a dusty walk or the crush at the bridge, and this is a valid objection; for it is likely to prevent many from attending, and any lack of co-operation on the part of members of the class arising form objection to the plan must inevitably defeat the purpose of a class exercise...