Word: contents
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...passing from a period of individual to one of collective expression. . . . Today we are less insistent on playing solo parts, and begin to be content with playing one part in the general orchestra. . . ." During my recent sojourn in Mexico I found startling confirmation of my ideas. There as I observed the impressive monuments of Toltec architecture, I stood in the presence of a great collective expression. ... In this connection I cannot understand why Americans who give millions for the restoration of Versailles, do not spend a few millions for the excavation of the uncounted temples in Central America...
...have gone and that if Parliament is to be destroyed it will be by their own hand. But this is not as absurd as it all sounds to the crass materialist. It is what makes the English a great nation, a great band of comfortable, content, utterly confident Soames Forsytes. Take away their traditions and the pomp and circumstance of all England would be dragged in the dust...
...George Hanna, Syrian-born day laborer who had been unemployed for seven months, his wife Fiena and their seven children. They were poor, had occasionally sought aid from the county public welfare bureau. Some of their neighbors complained that the children were rowdy, but Laborer Hanna was tolerably well content with his home and with the way his wife ran it. In August he saw his home about to be broken up. Upon the complaint of neighbors, Mrs. Elizabeth Neth, assistant chief probation officer of the court of domestic relations, filed a petition to have Mrs. Fiena Hanna declared...
...this the antiquarians, the collectors are more fortunate than the Vagabond, he cannot furnish his den with live or stuffed specimens. In the first place the subjects might object and in the second place too much of a good thing is too much. And so he must content himself with examining his objects "on the hoof...
...nation's sense of independence. It's not he. Then who is it? Is it a delegate of the nations who signed the Kellogg Pact in Paris, surrounded by 50 photographers, the proper inkwell could not be brought in because of its enormous size, they had to content themselves with a Sevres set? No, it's only- in comes slouching, gray woolen socks a-dangle-our Reinhold, that quite insignificant figure, a mouse-gray lad in mouse- gray." But Doblin has other more Car-lylean tricks up his sleeve. "And if you ask again whether there...