Word: cower
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...story of Journey's End. The plot itself is not nearly so involved. It is a simple war story of ten men in a dugout during 36 hours that precede a German attack. Their reactions form the basis of the play. They snarl, they laugh, they fight, they cower, they die. Standing out among them is one who hopes for death. He has drowned cowardice with whiskey. He has nothing for which to live. On the eve of the attack there is sent to his company the brother of the girl he loves−the last person...
...sturries, pomes, end ferry tails vot yu'll gonna reeding onder diss cower" writes Mr. Burbig in a foreword, "vas ritten by mine own hends, s'halp me Goldberg." After one has read a few of the "sturries etc" one begins to wonder. Was Milt Gross name originally Goldberg? If not, why does Mr. Burbig invoke that name? For certainly Milt Gross is the patron saint of this book, the captain under whose banner its writer has drawn his pen and whose exploits he endeavors, insofar as in him lies, to emulate...
...clash between fundamentalism and atheism. He is the son of an unyielding minister and he is in love with the daughter of a belligerent unbeliever. Driven by the fear inspired by both these attitudes he sets out to find a god before whom he will not have to cower...
...University of Virginia. Said he: "I believe that the body of educators has hardly realized the power it could exercise if it chose not to endure this perpetual bullying by ignoramuses. The teachers will be slaves if they act like slaves. Weakness always tempts the bully. If they cower they will be bullied. The tragedy and absurdity of the thing is that they could so easily rally a following if they had the imagination to realize how strong they are. If they chose to say that they would not endure the intolerable indignities to which they are subjected they would...
...Christian girls cower, but the Jewess, Rachel, cries : "I! I! I'm not a woman, I'm only a-a - slut! That's good enough for a Prussian!" Forthwith she stabs "Mademoiselle Fifi" in the throat, killing him, then escapes by jumping out the window, finally hides for months in a church tower, fed and cared for by the priest and the sacristan...