Word: chapter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Oriental and Roman worlds, he sees the virtual end of the one manner of life that might, if it had stayed on its feet, have been the salvation of the world. Demosthenes is Prometheus borne down by Chaos and Old Night; and only flick-ford's book is the chapter on "The Destroyer" where he assesses Darwin's work in its relation to what the world thinks and does now and may think and do in the future. The research which absorbed his life, the obsession with hypothesis and demonstration that robbed him of everything but the passion for work...
...Lafayette Escadrillc and a journalist, and as a result starts two laps behind the field. He never makes them up. He travels from the little Iowa village of his birth to a prison camp in Germany, to forgotten islands of Polynesia, to Iceland and back to Tahiti. His first chapter set in the Iowa village and describing the various soldiers of fortune passing through on the sleepers gives promise, but for the rest Hall is too self-conscious, inadequate, and careless...
...Spirituous iluids, literature of irreligious content, and riding beasts," were among the luxuries denied the early Princetonians. Regulation Number Two of Chapter 15, however, seems to be a prohibition of unnecessary stringency...
Then, after exploring, for the sake of greater tolerance toward three in every hundred of his fellows, the chapter on "urnings" and "uranism" -in which the four long letters, invented or not, are as remarkable as anything that will be published this year-let the reader attend a chapter which may mightily shock and profit parents teachers, preachers, public officials and alleged adults of every sort- the chapter on "Adult Infantilism In a Nation, In an Individual, In Literature...
...proceeded so far in his feverish plans that the tide of circumstance sweeps him on. An overturned rowboat, a camera used as a bludgeon, and Roberta drowns, perhaps murdered. The Law bays and quarters. A ghastly courtroom inquisition, a horrible, nerve-wracking, death-cell nightmare, write the final chapter of a well-written, well-acted, well-produced, authentic tragedy...