Word: buildings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...faith is the charge made categorically against him by the self-righteous and captious critic, who does not realize that it is only by passing through such a necessary and purgative period of testing and examination that youth can establish a valuable intellectual and moral foundation upon which to build his life...
...departure. Hitherto Congress has specified where and what buildings were to be built and for how much?a proceeding which produced the old "pork barrel practice," every Congressman angling to get a fine building for his community. It was recognized that the President would never sanction an old-fashioned pork barrell bill, and since many buildings are badly needed this bill was passed with Administration approval. It was passed by a parliamentary maneuver?suspension of the rules?which prevented the offering of amendments and cut down debate to less than an hour but required a two-thirds vote for passage...
...what has one to build his faith in a great literature to build on? It might be believed that this is to be another palace for a pauper. Yet consideration by the critical mind discredits this. The stage must be set before the actors can come. And the actors in this case are real literary characters who, unlike the usual puppets of modern fiction, live not alone on their own pages but in the memories of those who read the pages...
...while hunting and chose relatively docile mounts in order that his grandmother might not have her last days troubled by uneasiness for him. He has now given way once more to his passion for riding very mettlesome, powerful horses, which are quite unsuitable for a man of his slight build." The 13 spills: WHEN....WHERE...
Especially does he so inquire if he is an artist--not the mental midget of pseudo-aesthetic tendencies, but the occasional person who wants to create rather than criticize, to build rather than to fresco other people's buildings with the rococo delineations of his embryonic criticism. He is mentally tired. He has learned that better writers, painters, musicians than he can ever be have not only preceded him, but have left their art for the catalogues of word epicures and the text books of higher criticism. The flames do or do not leap high in his fire place...