Word: ant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...spirit fetches him back through time to such scenes as the burning of Pythagoras and his Golden Brotherhood, Leonardo picking up fossils on the Florentine hills, Darwin bareheaded before an ant in Kent, Huxley impaling bland Bishop Wilberforce before the British Association. The latter episode, vividly reconstructed, is the high point of the narrative and is brought into sharp relief by a humorous glimpses of Miss Eliza Pym of Woodstock, blushing furiously but consumed with curiosity to hear that the wild flowers she draws in delicate, virginal water-colors have...
...their own aspirations. Some months ago the New Republic listed a few of the animals chosen by secret orders of brotherly love, and the conclusion was that only about four animals remained unchosen. The New York zoo will have no requests for a wart hog, for instance, not for ant-eaters. If they make good their promise to leave no organization unsupplied, however, the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals will step in, and prevent them from supplying the Brotherly and Protective Order of Blind Mice with its accepted beast, or from painting up a few amphibia...
...garden party- as indeed she was-she perfectly described the setting for one of the bloodiest trials of history. Great people walk absently through her pages. Emerson, whose soul she compares to a glass of water; Washington Irving, "a man with large, beautiful eyes" James Russell Lowell, "brilli- ant, witty, gay"; Henry Clay uttering his battle-cry "California", "the last syllable of which he pronounced in a peculiar way"; Amos B. Alcott, advised to drink milk to make his transcendentalism less foggy; farmers, slave holders, Abolitionists, preachers, pale brides, dark chivalrous gentlemen, all brought strangely back in the letters...
...Greame is unquestionably one of the ablest men now in Parliament, and one of the most eager and energetic. He has the economic facts of the British Empire at his fingers' ends, and his brain is a series of pigeonholes stuffed with the documents of world trade . . . laughing at ant-heaps. . . . I regard him as a man of the very highest promise, and one who may yet do as much for the prosperity of the British Empire as any man now living...
Meanwhile, the Federal Council of Churches sent out elaborate instruc tions for a Mobilization for Peace. The Peace movement within Protest ant churches was begun by the so-called liberals. It has swept the country...