Word: dearer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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They were to find a "native" theme. Indians? Witchcraft? Skyscrapers? No, the most native to U. S. spirit, decided Miss Millay, is the old Saxon legend. The Saxon is nearer than the redman; the turbulent warrior dearer than the Puritan, to our age. Theirs was a forthright, swaggering, romantic spirit. Mr. Taylor would write his music true to the hunt, the forest, the clash of sword, the misty superstitions, the feudal ideals of loyalty...
...sake of making the most beautiful flag in all the world 'a stainless flag' before the eyes of all the world. I do this for the sake of the Constitution. ... I do it for the sake of the ideals that must control your own children, who are dearer to you than the ruddy drops that gather in your hearts. I do this for the sake of my own little daughters and the homes they are to make some day, perhaps for some of your misguided sons. ... I hold aloft this picture dream of my own girlies and declare...
...Horace grows dearer as the years go by. Although you young people may consider your Latin already lost, you will find that later on in life it will come back to you, and you will read Horace with growing delight," Such was the promise which Professor C. H. Moore '89 made to his hearers yesterday afternoon in the second lecture of the series on five great authors...
Slander the Woman. The opening title explains that Yvonne Demarest is a noble young girl to whom honor is dearer than life itself. Those who remain after reading that deserve all they...