Word: contentedness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Mother M. Alphonsa Lathrop, 75-year-old daughter of Poet Nathaniel Hawthorne, widow of Novelist George Parsons Lathrop (died 1898) had established this institution a few years after taking the veil (1899) to provide a place where destitute cancer victims could die in peace. No efforts to cure were made...
Then began a ponderous, contented funeral march through the waves of the Atlantic behind the slowly tugged submarine S-51, back to the Brooklyn Navy Yard.
To preach a doctrine of struggle toward the unattainable, to suggest a departure from the paths of indolence and case--that is to play the hypocrite. For in this case as in many others the precise caption is--"Aren't we all?" But one can regret that in this great...
The weather was warm and the water calm for the trials. The Second crew remained in the same order that it, rowed in yesterday, being seated as follows: Stroke, Watts; 7, Walcott; 6, Weymer; 5, Gates; 4, Canning; 3, Barry; 2, Farnham; bow, Perkins. Not many changes, if any will...
But the report sidestepped this dangerous issue quite neatly. It contented itself with rebuking all disputants in general for intolerance, evil-speaking, misjudgments and unwarranted publication of slanders. It transferred the responsibility for unrest in the Presbyterian Church to well-known causes such as the War, modern science, the mechanical...