Word: asceticism
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Yet, last week, Rene Lacoste and Henri Cochet, French by blood, birth and habit, accustomed to wining with their meals, to puffing tasteless "Maryland" cigarets, to dissipating as only a French gourmet can?these men won the world's highest tennis honors from hardy, ascetic U. S. men.
The adolescent boy who had these highflown fancies was subject to waking visions that almost amounted to seizures. In the grown youth, an intense, ascetic student of electro-dynamics whose extravagant notions of planet power had given place to practical work on telephones, this visionary weakness became translated into an...
Brian Oswald Dorm-Byrne, the storyteller, has now done* what it has long seemed he might do-put aside his sentimental inclination and surrendered himself completely to the language of the Bible, to the epic fever of the century that produced the last great religion. The fighting man in him...
Significance. To hear Sir Thomas, apostle of "Rule Britannia" one would suppose the Mahatma, apostle of "Rule India," entirely down and out. Actually, Gandhi, a tense, passionate ascetic, usually clad only in a loin cloth and a sash, was easily the dominant figure of the last Indian National Congress. The...
At Darmstadt, Germany, lives a slender ascetic gentleman in life's early autumn; bald over the temples, high and round of brow, thinly bearded and of a faintly Oriental cast of countenance. He is Count Hermann Keyserling, philosopher. He conducts a School of Wisdom, where mature thinkers go by...