Word: calloused
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...insane. Way of Sacrifice is a mad medley of trench mud, footsore soldiers' nightmares, barbwire hallucinations, macabre fears, and philosophic outbursts, synthesized into despair over the futility of it all. The particular futility of unrelieved "storm regiments" below Verdun was evident to officers and men alike. The callous commandant: "Four hundred thousand gone? I reckoned it at that." But the company cook, who had been chef to the king of Greece, thought the death of Narcissus on the rocks of Arcady pleasanter than a bloody grave in the confusion of attack...
...battalion of Grim Reapers as far as the Hoover cause is concerned, they have in the bag, at least, the easily sown kernels of discontent. Governor McMullen feels that the farmers, asserting themselves before the Wall Street gang, can reap at least their political harvest, but the callous press of his native state unites in calling his aspirations fertilizer...
...Callous critics have tried to detect the underlying principles and sublime morals in the function. It was for just such as these that Mark Twain prescribed shooting for those that sought a moral in Huckleberry Finn. But no one need heed these defilers of the Freshman's pleasure. Whether it represents the climax of the first year, the matriculation into full-fledged Sophomores, or any of many other symbols, no one very much cares. But everyone will at least agree that the Standish back-yard (or smith Common room, as the Fates decide) has never been graced with more delightful...
...Maine and for Claire's partner a youth whose adolescent romanticism is as vapid as a cloud. When, to impress his faithless inamorata, Nelson Smock paddled his canoe into the surf beyond the inshore calm, she, riding by in a motorboat with a different gallant, remained gay and callous. " 'Nelson,' Claire called, 'you have'nt any idea how funny you look...
...would hold me in her arms and sing the song over and over again. It soothed her poor heart for the untimely death of my little sister. Cardinal O'Connell can have had little no children die in his family, or he would not be so callous to such a consoling, lovely and song. please It do is not not let it vulgar. It be driven out of memory. ELSIE D. COOPER Baltimore...