Word: crabbedness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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DING DONG BELL-Walter De La Mare-Knopf ($1.75). Two people-a young lady with a silk sunshade, an old gentleman with an umbrella-meet on the platform of a country railroad junction. They have hours to wait. An express goes by; in the hush that follows its passing the...
"The Advocate in this issue gives up the minatory and monitory capacity which, like the Greek future tense, it sometimes assumes, and with no thought to the college turns itself to literary matters. This reversion was not planned by the Advocate, nor wholly expected by it: for the late rebellious...
Prizes of $100 each were also distributed to the Alliance Players of Jersey City, with Caleb Stone's Death Watch, an ironic comedy of the death chamber by Martin Flavin, and to the Gardens Players of Forest Hills, with Crabbed Youth and Age, by Lennox Robinson.
CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER, Philip Snowden, Socialist, most unpopular member of the Cabinet. Is foremost proponent of Capital Levy and has a "crabbed, gloomy nature."
Thus did the crabbed cynic ridicule those who made marble mausoleums for a heap of ashes. But those of us who have never achieved living in a wine cask, insist upon at least six feet of quiet sod and an undisturbed headstone. For, as Dr. Rand has observed, the living...