Word: contentedly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Myrmecology sets Mystic Maeterlinck musing; he thinks the ant may be an example, not only to the sluggard, but to the whole race. "One day we shall learn, as all the creatures that share this earth with us have already learned, to content ourselves with life . . . and we shall find, perhaps, when we know how to live it, that life is enough. ... I believe that the ant is far less unhappy than the very happiest...
...volume is not intoxicating." "A cordial or liqueur," he continued, "such as curagao or benedictine, although it may contain 50% of alcohol, is not intoxicating, for in common practice such beverages are consumed only in very small amounts. But whiskey, gin or rum, having approximately the same alcoholic content, are frequently taken at a rate which results in the absorption into the blood within an hour of enough centimetres of alcohol to intoxicate." Although Pedagog Yandell did not mention wine in his list of good cheer, yet Yale was also wine-conscious last week...
Yesterday we spent the time answering our neighbor's questions as to whether we really and truly were serious about all this shorts business. We even had a calf-comparing contest in which we came out very much the worst but content that if we could wear this newest in men's style, most anybody else could also...
...picture taken on the White House steps (see cut). That hard-hitting New Yorker, Alfred Emanuel Smith, had years ago (1922) knocked out of him his last swelling of political ambition. Rather was Publisher Hearst filled with a sense of enormous wellbeing, the feeling of a great figure content in his heyday. While people were tumbling over each other in Los Angeles to get tickets for a monster "testimonial" dinner they were going to give him there he stopped off at Chicago where they had made him guest of honor for the 59th anniversary celebration of the city's Great...
...wife wanted that the children should be proud of me, so I am content," said he last week. "My neighbors tell me the critics are troubled whether I be impressionist, modernist or classicist, but these things I do not understand...