Word: acridity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Saturday Evening Post-the village idiot. But Author Gorky's powers, however fully displayed here, have produced books that were far more readable than this one. The action and atmosphere of Decadence are typified in a single meteorological description from it: "During the daytime an opal cloud of acrid smoke rose in a column above the earth and at night the bald moon looked unpleasantly red, and the stars, shorn of their rays by the mist, loomed out like the heads of copper nails, while the water in the river reflected the troubled sky and gave one the impression...
...history. He is a man on the borderline of genius and insanity, not far (though far enough) removed from that type of creature that plagues editors and other public people with "nut" letters. He has passionate grievances, Tom o' Bedlam's honesty and a spilling store of acrid Americana to relate. Son of Puritans, he was raised among "that prairie tribe, conglomerate of Dutchman, Bohunk, Railroad Irish and Indiana Yankee" in Nebraska and Kansas...
...advertisements for a cigar which is, in appearance, somewhat squat, in odor, somewhat acrid, has been pictured a face known to all lovers of loud music-the face of John Philip Sousa. The famed bandmaster was depicted gazing in tender contemplation at the squat object or, with a presumably acristogy inserted between his crisp military mustache and his neat professional Van dyke, enjoying a happy solace while he listened, rapt, to some exalted strain. Last week Lieut. Commander Sousa began a Supreme Court action to re cover $100,000 damages from the P. Lorillard Co., which had thus, without...
...lands were "annexed" by Georgia in 1828. In vain they appealed to President Jackson. He told them to submit to Georgia or get out across the Mississippi. When the now sacred Chief Justice Marshall, in an elaborate opinion, declared that Georgia had no jurisdiction in the Cherokee territory, the acrid old President frostily remarked: "John Marshall has made his decision; now let him enforce it!'' At last, in 1835, the Cherokees did cross the big river, some in peace, some sword-pricked; and consoled themselves with $5,000,000. John Marshall's theory of "domestic dependent" nations...
...herself back to her girlhood stifled by her mother-living again the romance of the Spanish-American War, learning not to cramp her own daughter's style of loving. Lewis Beach's stage play, The Square Peg, here transferred to the screen, has had some of the acrid tang carefully sponged out of it. But enough remains to vitalize this study of the ironbound mother determined to be good to her family, let the chips fall where they...