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...British High Commissioner, an imposing structure built originally asr the Empress Augusta Victoria Hospice (hotel). The British, easygoing, have left unmolested a pair of astonishing mural paintings in the Chapel. One depicts God the Father. The other, directly opposite and much more imposing in composition, was painted to display in trailing Biblical robes of glory The All Highest, Wilhelm...
...sparks and fires. Miss Hoyt's writing has the shine together with the unaccountability of planetary motion. Gayly arranging the paths of her spheres, she, like another metaphorical Manipulator of Constellations, makes no explanations. She rules out reasons and motives; indicates that her little galaxy is, like a display of fireworks, intended only for the spectators' diversion. The bright gyrations do not come under the laws of literary astronomy; she will light the rockets and the roman candles when she chooses. The reader may watch, ask no questions, be amused at the whiz, bang, sputter...
...muddy Eastern front, they decide to quit the War, and, dressed as women, march off into dark Russia. Embarrassing complications ensue when they blunder into the feminine Battalion of Death and are ordered to strip. Vanity (Leatrice Joy, Charles Ray). A characteristic of De Mille productions is that all display must be super-grand. Is it a ball? The room spreads as vast as Grand Central Terminal. Is the heroine a social lioness? Her train covers as much ground as the hall rug. The plot substance, by compensation, is minute. In this instance, the heroine visits a onetime admirer aboard...
...polite society it is considered vulgar for one to make a display of his wealth or education. In the practical affairs of life, when a man uses an odd or unusual word to convey a meaning that could have been as easily and as quickly conveyed by a more common word, he is held in contempt by his associates. You seem to go to great length to make a display of your vocabulary. You have had a penchant for using unusual words since your publication started, and I had occasion to write to you in a similar vein...
...Cutts '28 or Willard Howard '28 is the pitching probability for Harvard. One of these two twirlers will in all likelihood start the second tilt of the Yale series, and should have an opportunity to display his hurling wares, in a final engagement before the crucial Eli clashes...