Word: charnel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...writes, "during his first visit to Peking [1912]. ... I was not greatly impressed. . . . It appears to be generally forgotten now that he left Canton for his last trip to the north in November 1924, thoroughly discredited. He had converted the most prosperous portion of that city into a charnel-house, and completely subordinated himself and the Kuomintang to Moscow Communists. He, who had owed his life on at least two occasions to British protection, and who, less than two years previously, had, in the course of an address to the students of Hongkong University, lauded the administration of the colony...
...cattle were shipped to Cherryfield. They failed to recuperate, left natives with a large number of ribby carcasses on their hands. Cherryfielders piled the hulks on wagons, carted them to a lonely spot well back from their Black Woods road, dumped them out to rot. Snow soon covered the charnel heap...
...dramatists. This work holds that many of the seventeenth century plays tend toward a childish over emphasis of the horror element, and contrasts the unpretentious realism of the modern stage. In spirited refutation, O'Casey tied Webster's "Ducieas of Malfi," and pointed out that the swords and bloody charnel-houses of Webster are no more to be taken seriously than the telephones and camisoled ladies seen on the boards today. Archer has based his arguments merely on the mechanics of the dramatist. The case against him was complete when O'Casey read, with devasting humor, a bit of insipid...
...Charnel chaos, forgotten by the outside world, was Hawaii's leper settlement on Molokai Island when in 1873 a young Belgian named Father Damien (Joseph De Veuster) begged his bishop to send him there. Father Damien worked like a beaver to improve the place, made himself and it famous. One Sunday in 1885 he opened his sermon not with the customary "Brethren" but simply: "We lepers...
...charnel-house of Surrealism, one stands bare-headed and resigned. Mufiled drums beat, and men murmur, "Oh, why should the spirit of mortal be proud?" But for this newest venture of Harkness heraldry, let Lowell bells ring out and the bird-calls sound forth loud and clear. It is a romantic story, this calling of Harvard men to their colors. One day in January, masters and tutors, in meeting assembled, folded their hands and awaited the moment when the spirit should move them. Then to each there came that inner voice, whispering to men of Dunster, "blue and gold," murmuring...