Word: bred
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Everyone knows Tolstoy's story of country-bred Catering's betrayal by swaggering Prince Dimitri, how she fell to the gloomy, filthy Russian depths, how Dimitri found her in a Petrograd prison, how she was redeemed. Truly a melodramatic story, long drawn out by Tolstoy in psychological analysis and pragmatical moralizing, but in this opera retold with truly theatrical effectiveness in only four episodes. Therein, to music that was "strong, eloquently melodious, entirely southern despite the artful use of Slavic folk themes to create and sustain Russian atmosphere," Miss Garden found as good a part...
Clarence Dillon is not the first genius to appear on Wall Street, but all geniuses have their special characteristics. Besides honesty, foresight, courage and decision, what distinguishes this Texas-born, Harvard-bred, widely-traveled young man is an attitude toward business - and life - that is commonly called the artistic attitude. What other men make a labor, he makes an art. Before he tried his hand at business he idled in Europe for two years studying art and architecture. "I never expected to become a professional painter, or to build houses," he says, but he still delights to execute an etching...
...perhaps poured out their coffee or lit a cigaret, before their eyes again returned to the page. But the first sentence of General Rogers' obituary made them gasp and hold the paper closer; the second and third sentences made them cry out with laughter or scowl with well-bred disapproval, according to their temperaments. For the article under the headline began as follows...
...Light o' Love in the hurdles. Officers from all the countries whose national anthems the band had played rode against the U. S. on their sleek chargers and were soundly beaten. Eleven out of 13 of the early blue ribbons went to horses that were not owned, trained, bred or ridden by people from Chicago...
...perhaps with litters of uncreated stars, the Millikan Ray stabs earthward, traversing aerial shambles strewn with the debris of mutating solar systems, planes where (according to schoolboy definition) parallel lines may meet, and voids in which time, unhinged, spins like a tiny weathervane in an everlasting whirlwind. What bred the ray? The condensation into matter of light and heat given off by distant stars and suns,* suggests Dr. Millikan...