Word: tagging
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...trouble with them is--I still mean the whys and whats--that they have the wrong labels. In a generation with the greatest regard for labels what chance has any art which bears the tag of buffoonery--honest buffoonery?. Last week I went over to town to find what claim to greatness beside the tag of R.A., Sir John Lavery possessed. And there at the Vose galleries I saw people thrilling over, at best mediocre work--merely out of respect for the R.A.--that and the fact he had married a lady from Chicago. While next door at the Casson...
Throughout the week Berliners gradually resumed their normal health and spirits after a period of torpor induced by the consumption of the following yuletide viands, as estimated by Der Tag: 3½ million pounds of meat, chiefly geese and heavy cuts suitable for roasting; slightly under one million pounds of carp, the traditional and indispensable dish of the German for Christmas Eve; 4 million eggs; 1 million pounds of sugar; 125 tons of fruits and nuts; and "at least 210 million marks' worth of beer and wine...
...Significance. It happens that the story of Jehu Sennacherib Dyle was set down in the last century and consigned to comparative obscurity, but its complete realism might tag it as written yesterday. Haldane Macfall wrote of Negro life in all its comic fullness, yet refused to write the regulation Negro comic story. Saith Carl Van Vechten, according to the blurb: "The Wooings of Jezebel Pettyfer is probably the best novel yet written about the Negro." And Critic Van Vechten is not far wrong, for Haldane Macfall can write. He has an extraordinarily observant eye and an equally effective...
What Women Do? The tag...
...which, with a like sum of his own, would recondition the ancient plane for flight. This offer was declined by Mr. Wright, who professed to have better uses for his money. Meanwhile, the plane, which may be hoisted once more by its own petard, retains the proud tag...