Word: expressionism
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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Some of the Durers are late additions to the collection; and it certainly is far richer now than when it lacked the brilliant impression of the print variously called "The Great Fortune," "Nemesis," "Temperance in the Clouds," etc. This print gives a winged female figure in the clouds above a...
THE last works of an author so prolific as Bulwer are often repetitions in part of former ones, and, even if they lose nothing in freshness and originality, they are likely to embody some fanciful theory or a leaning towards sentimentality in one form or another, - to be pervaded throughout...
To say that the result of the races was a great disappointment to us would be but a slight expression of the general feeling. To have the cup dashed from our lips when it so nearly touched them makes the defeat the harder to bear. But in such a defeat...
What is here known as a "squirt" is called at other places a "rowl" or "rush." The analogy between the sudden ejection of water from a pipe and the quick and forcible expulsion of words from the mouth probably gave rise to this word, which so aptly expresses what it...
I wish to mention one example of a college-coined word, originating here, which has attained a celebrity equal to that which the students of Cambridge, England, have given to "Hobson's choice," and that is the word "Yankee." It was in circulation here about 1713. According to Dr. William...