Word: mannerizes
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...artists-sang, they hissed them. Wilder and wilder grew the farce until everybody in the audience and on stage-save the unfortunate tenor-was choking with laughter. The hero was puzzled, but accepted his success. After the performance they put him in his carriage and in the ancient grand manner unhitched the horses, and the cheering crowd dragged him to his home, where after long parting shouts of ''bravo " they left him to meditate...
...Significance. In Riceyman Steps, Mr. Bennett successfully re-turns to the rich, discursive, detailed manner of Clayhanger and The Old Wives' Tale. A slighter book than these, it is nevertheless quite as able. The bare outline of the plot necessarily makes the novel sound some-what squalid and overly grim?but it is neither. There is much humor in it, excellent portraiture, great fidelity to life. The years have not diminished Mr. Bennett's extraordinary curiosity about practically everything and person in this transient world...
...short fictional technique. They have appeared in magazines of varying types: The Saturday Evening Post, Harper's, The Century, etc., etc. The latest collection of them was made this Autumn under the title Cross-Sections, Julian Street was born in Chicago, but he is thoroughly metropolitan in manner and instinct. He is quiet, slow moving, tall, with dark, graying hair and a slow, almost drawling voice. His master is obviously Booth Tarkington, of whom he talks much, whom he admires exceedingly. They once wrote a play together, The Country Cousin. Their attitude toward modern life is much the same...
...nation. Governments should be judged with the same strict standards of morality that we all wish to apply in judging the conduct of an individual. The moral code in the public life of a man cannot be different from the moral code in his private life; in the same manner no nation or government can have one set of moral standards for its domestic policy and diametrically opposite standards for its foreign relationship. Truth is not a matter of convenience, but it is one eternal law binding all, rich and poor, weak and strong, visible or invisible...
Once each season, Ilya Schkolnik, concertmaster of the Detroit Symphony leaves his desk to be soloist. It was Beethoven's Concerto in D Major that he chose this year for his own violin, and the critics said " never has he disclosed his artistic stature in so distinguished a manner...