Word: pedanticism
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There are other things, adds Mr. Frank, which symbolize America as much as jazz: Ethelbert Nevin's "The Rosary" is as native as Irving Berlin's "All Alone"; and Harold Bell Wright and the New York Daily News could exist only in this land of our forefathers. But such trifles...
The others, likewise saying little, doing much, are in the order of their appointment: Oliver Wendell Holmes, 85, of Massachusetts-"a poetic turn of expression and a liberal cast of thought." Willis Van Devanter, 67, of Wyoming-"a student not impractical, a scholar not pedantic." James Clark McReynolds, 64, of...
In this case, there will be no discomfort. Males who have worn raccoon coats and oiled their hair; who have exchanged a million vapidities in fraternity houses; who have envied the head cheerleader, preened their slang, toddled all night, slaved for watch charms; and the girls they haye petted on...
Some months ago, James Calisch's landlady heard her lodger in an altercation with young Silberstein. "You're a nut!" ejaculated the older man. "What reasons have you for making such a statement?" demanded the youth, with the pedantic inflection of an adolescent philosopher. "Well," began Mr. Calisch...
So this continuance of affairs in Poictesme, after the passing of that brave grey rascal, Dom Manuel, from his castle at Storisende, and during the adolescence of Coth's prying young son, Jurgen, is a faintly tiresome recital of disappointments, frustrations, pedantic sorceries and middle-aged bawdinesses among the...