Word: burnings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...unhappily, there is too little sport for sport's sake. A man goes out for a team either because it is an honor to make the team, or a disgrace not to make it. If athletic games are not for sport, but only to win, we might as well burn up every football and baseball in the country. Why not substitute wood chopping or coal shovelling, which would develop the muscles just as well as athletics and perform useful service in addition? If athletics are not for the sake of sport, they are no better than a muscle-making machine...
...Thursday?Ascension Day?the day Jesus went back to God, wherefore he expected to be scourged, and was, for that night his little girl, Baby Rose, was burnt to death in the cookfire. After that Killdee hated God. Vengeance was all right, but it didn't seem square to burn a baby...
...composition, born of fire and mys-
tery, having the rigor and brilliance of glass, the lustre of amber
from the Isles. Poetically, it is a resin formed from equal parts of
phenol and formaldehyde, in the presence of a 'base,
...affecting proud disdain of the world, the flesh and the devil outside of his villa: "I beg you to declare that I have become the solitary, proud artist of 1911. It is my firm decision not to care or to know what happens outside my villa. Every evening, I burn before an altar of stone the heap of the day's unopened and unanswered letters. To write to me is useless, to come to my door equally useless. I answer nobody; I receive nobody. Neither prayer nor insolences can break my monastic enclosure. My dogs are wise and bite...
...Well, I'd keep the matter very dark,' he said. 'I'd burn the evidence. It's the most human thing I ever heard...