Word: born
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Track Coach Says Most People Are Born That Way--Cites Many Examples From Careers of Recent Stars...
...best man ever born in the Union, and old Freddy Caneny is the only man there ever knocked him down...
...good man. He was the best man ever born in the Union," said Freddy, "even though Freddy knocked him down. He got up like an angry lion and came at me, but his friends stopped the battle there. At that time he was a handsome blond, and was just beginning to grow side whiskers...
...course of twenty years has been poured the scum of life, lies and sensuality and greed and vanity and frivolity and, worst of all, the terrible self-righteousness of thousands of ruined marriages and lost lives. "He could not indicate the precise point in time at which there was born in his soul the yearning to be another than himself. The tangible experience was this: utter satiety of his own character...
...must be kept in mind that Wassermann is a sort of first child of the Twentieth Century, strong and vigourous and mercilessly sure in his judgment of the world into which he was born, that of Huysmans and Wilde and Anatole France, a world in which avarice and hatred have been more obvious than usual, a world tired and emasculated, "decadent." Against this he has struggled, like a "Titan," as the jacket puts it. Probably he felt much freer in writing "Mein Weg als Deutcher und Jude." This propagandizing and sociologizing mars all his work except the "World's Illusion...