Word: mannerizes
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...totally opposed tradition was the exhibition of the Guild of Boston Artists which also opened last week. This group has always sought to preserve the manner of the old Boston School, rigorous, conservative, fastidious. Pictures of ships, girls, countrysides, they presented in their exhibition ?tall Boston clipper-ships, New England girls, New England landscapes etched in pearly monotones. Mr. Tarbell is represented by the type of quiet interior which won him notice at other of the Guild's exhibits; Mr. Paxton likewise with an interior, suave, adept ?a girl holding a cup, surfaces of flesh, porcelain, fabric, exquisitely...
...just about to scalp another soul (subtitle writers are warned that this morbidly mixed metaphor is copyrighted and its use forbidden, no matter how great the temptation). That's where the man from Syracuse comes in. The soul-scalper is played by Rockliffe Fellowes in a manner to reinforce the growing judgment that he is about the next star to be discovered in the crowded California heavens...
...vaudeville experience of J. C. Nugent is usually visible through the fabric of the manuscript. His lack of simplicity and directness of attack on a full-length play diffuse the cumulative effect. His playing is characteristic. Elliott Nugent contrives miraculously to look and talk in a manner actually reminiscent of college boys. Ruth Nugent is pretty and Mary Shaw gives a notable performance as the Irish cook...
...subscriber to TIME for two years. I regard it as the most valuable periodical of its class and, in the main, think it is exceedingly well conducted. It was my impression that it was founded with the idea of summarizing the news of the day in an interesting manner in order that business and professional men might be spared the necessity of glancing through a large amount of present day news in an endeavor to cull the essential facts therefrom...
...public, and begun whittling at an unhealthy protuberance in the publishing field, namely, Physical Culture, a monthly magazine published by one Bernarr Macfadden (TIME, June 4, 1923; July 14, Sept. 22). The November issue of Hygeia carried "the first of a series of articles . . . discussing the manner in which the hope of relief from suffering and disease is exploited by the promoters of peculiar cults and fads...