Word: contentedly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...faith. So he has--at what cost only he can know--remained true to the cause of justice and the aviation companies. If a wicked and paternalistic government is going to interfere in a business which has been going along very nicely and in which the promoters have been content with a comparatively small amount of graft, then Charlie for one is not going to have any relations with that government. It will simply have to get along without him as best it can; for he is made of sterner stuff than most men and his principles mean something...
...plea is for radical politics and religious conservatism, but he has not fallen into the facile synthesis which is becoming fashionable in our seminaries. He realizes that however close Christianity and Marxism may be in their fundamental assumptions and in their scale of values, the religious content of the one and the institutional weight of the other puts them at cross purposes. Both movements have been quick to follow the line of least resistance, but only in their agreement can a sane solution of our problems have the chance of survival...
...prose, Author Cabell might be capable of really savage satire. Even in his "habitual vein of romantic irony" he sometimes drops into a phrase that would have given even Jonathan Swift pause, as when he speaks of physical love as "a conjuncture of sewer pipes." But generally Cabell is content to continue astounding the bourgeois by his own superior urbanity. His intelligence and taste alike are now for most readers hopelessly buried under the tricks and oddities of a lush Cabellowing style...
...wife. Station Agent Ben doggedly pursued cat-like Lulu, unaware that she was after Slaughter. When the deacon found Slaughter and his pretty wife practicing hymns together in the church and peppered them with birdshot, all these situations began to come to a head. Villain Drury, not content with hurting Bolly's feelings by letting him see his horns, picked a fight, nearly killed him. When Slaughter found out what had happened he did the same to Drury. Bolly drowned his shame in the river, and Drury was arrested for murder. To make a clean slate, Slaughter took...
...small amount of undergraduate humility should be a good nostrum for the literary aspirant. If the Mr. Wades of the college would content themselves with sober and constructive criticisms within their depth they would gain a great many ears which are now deaf to them. "The Saturday Review" would I am sure not only welcome but publish a sensible criticism of its policies. (Name withheld by request...