Word: athirst
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cents per month in his pocket, and no fear of extradition. His lot will be a sandy purgatory of heat, fever, mosquitoes, mangy beasts and tribesmen foes who fight like jackals-but there will be "no questions asked". . . . Such a life attracts not only fugitives, but honest youths athirst for adventure. Such a life attracted Bennett J. Doty of Biloxi, Miss. (TIME, July 26, 1926), who served with the Legion gallantly in Syria, then deserted. He was not sentenced to death but to only eight years hard labor because of pressure from the U. S. State Department. Last week...
...scholar. Her offering for this season is more scholarly than creative?a reconstruction of the episcopal works of the first Roman Catholic bishop of her beloved New Mexico, Jean Marie Latour.* She draws him with esthetic reverence, an immaculate conception of a missionary in buckskins who, lost and athirst in the desert, still retained elegance, distinction and "a kind of courtesy toward himself, toward his beasts, toward the juniper tree before which he knelt and the God whom he was addressing...
...rhetorician would approve this statement for its deft use of antithesis; but, since nothing could be more inaccurate, it is not of much value as a comment on the present problems of higher education. Mr. Williams' picture of the student of the nineties entering college athirst for knowledge but enticed away from it by the lure of athletics and managerships does not command credence by its cleverness. One suspects that a good many of Mr. Williams' fellow Freshmen were out quite openly in search of the good time which it appears circumstances forced down his own unwilling throat. Those were...
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