Word: boundlessness
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...barbarous vice. If M. Barbot had remained with his machine, his overalls or whatever aviators wear, would probably be decorating some New Jersey villa; certainly Boston women assailed the fair Rodolpho as furiously as ever the Bacchanalian revellers rent poor Orpheus. The Enthusiasm of the demoniac souvenir-fiend is boundless, and if half of the present monuments are to be kept for posterity to admire, vigorous measures will have to be adopted...
...same thing as propaganda, which it is not." Whereupon the Transcript proceeds to show that it is. " The child is educated," if you please, " by arousing pride and joy in his heart. . To interweave heroic deeds, battles long ago and proudly remembered feats and sacrifices with rocks and rills, boundless plains and happy valleys is the surest means of vitalizing the instruction of the school. It is not necessary to inculcate hatreds, but it is desirable to arouse pride. There's not a culture worth the name that is not founded on patriotic deeds...
...itself as we know it from the West there is very little which is a relief. The author loses no time in political theorizing or in speculating as to the future of Russia, but steps quickly into the boundless forests of the Yenisei. From there on, all that we hear of the war or the Revolution comes as an echo from the Northwest, or from the months of inn-keepers, shepherds, Lamas, or officers of "Red" of "White" detachments. Once, it is true the Yenisei River, in its springy floods brings a sight that neither author nor readers will ever...
...once had the "quid" and the "plug", the non-smoking rule perhaps will be abolished. Then a later-day Dickens looking on the majesty that is the Senate and beholding each man as a "smoke-vomiting chimney" may well be led to describe the Senate chamber as a "boundless furnace... where a suffocating wind the pilgrim smites with instant death...
Yale is here today with every expectation of winning. The odds favor her--and no one knows it better than Harvard. That is just the reason for the extraordinary feeling of determination, for the quiet optimism and boundless confidence in the fighting qualities of the team, that has charged the atmosphere for the last week. The feeling has been growing daily; there will be an adequate demonstration this afternoon of the fact that a trip over the Harvard goal line will prove a long, hard trail for any Eli--however enterprising...