Word: bents
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...evident that the originators of this plan have no fear of the unlucky "13"; or possibly they are bent on ruining the whole world at one fell swoop. Imagine, also, trying to figure the interest at four and three-fourths percent of $19.19 for three months and three days when a month is a thirteenth of a year and twenty-eight days is not divisible by three! And think of the awful rate of the small boy whose birthday falls always on Sunday! No! No! If we decide to steal a march on Dame Nature let us be fair...
...start", he said. "I think it is pretty well established in the minds of education now that the study of the drama is not a fad. Particularly in the far West are people beginning to realize the importance of giving the creative artist a chance to follow his own bent. People realize that this is a mechanical and industrial age, and that none of us have much play for our creative instincts in the ordinary round of daily work...
...mountain fastnesses. Their abode, perched on one of the lofty peaks in the snow-clad Andes, is almost inaccessible to hostile philistines. There, amidst the glorious inspiration of rugged mountains and tropical valleys, they ply their brains in perfect isolation, their climate equable for work, their minds bent on the sole task of learning and teaching. Parents from all parts of the Empire, from Lake Titicaca on one hand to Gar-liccodor in the South, at great sacrifice and expense send their children to this fortress of wisdom. . . . It is said," he continues, (facetiously, no doubt) "that on their periodic...
...means simply putting off a decision, not deciding anything. It is, however, a very definite form of decision, for natural forces continue to act whether you decide or not, and nature makes the resolution that you cannot make yourself. A ship drifting on a lee shore is as surely bent for destruction as a craft that heads directly toward the rocks...
...brogues are well shined; their golf stockings are imported; their knickers and jackets do credit to the fashion plates; their tennis shirts and colorful ties are at once neat and attractive. But by their hats ye shall know them. Faded, dirty, greasy hats; hats discouraged and dissolute, torn, broken, bent, crushed, tipsy; hats that have seen life and have not come back unstained; hats that have been curious about the scum of mankind only to have scum spattered upon them; hats that have lost their ideals, that no longer dream dreams or see visions; hats that have had the world...