Word: concoct
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...writers to cast their eyes backward at the glorious work which was being produced half a century ago. The public cries for bread, he declares, and in return England's young modernists are giving them literary stones. Prose, writers turn out drab, boorish novels, and pseudo poets concoct yards and yards of verse, written "with one eye on Mammon and the other on the Charwoman's Elastic sided Boots". All that remains of a splendid past is an attenuated Hardy in the flesh, and faint memories of Francis Thompson and Swinburne...
...Edith Ayrton Zangwill, daughter of a professor and herself an authoress. But I attended only elementary schools and am practically self-educated. Yet I became a teacher, and later a journalist. One of my early books was The Big Bow Mystery, written to prove that it is possible to concoct a detective story in which the criminal cannot be detected by the reader until the last chapter. But it is not typical of my work. I am known as the first interpreter of the London Ghetto. Children of the Ghetto, Jinny the Carrier and The Melting Pot are more representative...
...wages, the protection of the law--all these, together with numerous other advantages offered by America alone, have been their privilege without one jot of sacrifice on their part. And in the face of all this they continuously vomit a volley of contemptuous statements about our government. They secretly concoct plans for the overthrow of law and order. It is to be regretted that there are some ministers and editors in the country who, in spite of absolute proof that the Reds have planned to overthrow this government, persist in fanning the flame of anarchism by urging from pulpit...
...Dawdle and Rattles come aboard in disguise, bent on rescuing Constance. They have been informed of her capture by Rooney, porter of the Shorn Lamb, who has been a witness of most of the scenes of the preceding act. They join the pirates, and after being duly sworn in, concoct a plan of escape. Meanwhile the girls who were to have been Constance's bridesmaids appear on the deck in bathing dresses, having swum to the ship. Several very pretty dances follow, and then Dawdle manages to dispatch Rooney, who has also come aboard in disguise, to the captain...
...newspaper work which is now doing so much to lower the tone of the press in this country. In a vain search after reputation as a brilliant reporter, the unscrupulous newspaper man hunts around for exciting news. When none can be found, an inaugriative brain has been known to concoct falsehoods and publish them with brazen effrontery. Colleges especially are exposed to this newspaper pest. The doings of students are always painted in the loudest tints and an indiscretion is magnified into a crime...