Word: beneath
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Century' and 'St. Nicholas' magazines and the 'Century Dictionary', "would have prevented him from striking out in such an original vein as that. Nor would Mark Twain have dared to go against every canon of good taste in literature and turn out The Innocents Abrind if he had sat beneath the elms of good old Yale. Twain struck out for himself and his poor taste was so funny that it made a new kind of literature in which taste did not seem to enter...
...bones of flyers who have fallen on land from altitudes of 1,000 ft. or more, usually have to be dug out of the ground from beneath their flesh, through which they, being harder, are driven at the body's impact with the earth...
...terms of Immortal Beauty." The many-crowned Professor has become young, eager, full of pretty and silly courtesies. The stool for her feet, the bunch of far-brought snow-drops Like the lover of Hans Andersen's princess he will not have Perella inconvenienced by the dried pea beneath the seventh mattress. And she adores him. May she not serve? "Socks, my dear?" he answers with puckery brow. "I've not worn darned socks for years-I buy the very cheapest and whenever I see a hole in the toe, I throw them into the wastepaper basket...
...Romancer Locke, were he merely the happiest of romancers, might leave Perella most adequately compensated for the loss of a heartily passionate youth whom fate had originally cast for her, but whom Beatrice Ellison, a magnificent young U. S. grandmother, usurped. Mr. Locke, however, preserves a vein of worldliness beneath his whimsy. He brings his four characters together again, suddenly, one sweet night in the Bois de Boulogne, with a result more than ever demonstrative of his power to finish a story off soundly. Mr. Locke is 63 now. With his novels listing more than 30, his plays half...
Most amazing was her attitude towards her boy, Robert, and through him, towards society. She marked his birthdays as day of special grace for her. She let him wander naked, and herself too, beneath "the unastonished trees." Socrates, she felt, and many another sage, would have approved; her contemporaries "would rather face their God with naked souls than naked bodies," being disease-ridden, blotched and misshapen. She freed her boy from fear of the dark and the forest. She resolved, in one of the old fashioned phrases so fresh on her pen, to urge him out of the nest that...