Word: descent
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Voltaire, Hans Christian and Sherwood Anderson, Merimee, De Maupassant, Chekov, James Joyce, Henry James, Jules Laforgue, Paul Morand. Before each story is a brief critical preface describing the influences that shaped each writer, the influences that each set in motion, the significance of each in the line of heroic descent...
...disposed of, instead of which it more than smoulders. Let us recite the facts in orderly fashion certain Princetonians waited on President Coolidge, who with the eye of good-natured criticism remarked on the dimensions of their trousers, how they seemed to hover towards baggy descent, and upon the supposed absence of braces for the said two-legged petticoats. The words were taken as they were uttered, and the young Princetonians received the chaff in the spirit in which it was given them, as gentlemen. They returned to Princeton, a college in New Jersey, and spread the news. It might...
With the aid of the Lieutenant Governor, Felix Toupin, a fiery little man of French descent who presided over the Senate, the Democrats began a filibuster a year ago to compel the Republicans to agree to a Constitutional Convention to do away with the "rotten borough" system. The filibuster lasted from January to June, with frequent clashes, several of which went to the point of physical violence. Finally in June, at the end of a heated session of 50 hours' duration, someone placed a bromine gas bomb behind the Lieutenant Governor's chair. The Democrats said...
Blood Thickness. On the principle that a stone falls more rapidly than a feather (through a medium) because of its greater density, a quick means of testing the thickness of blood was devised by timing its rate of descent through water. In this way, it was found that the blood may be diluted 10% in five minutes (by secretions of salt water from glands) if a person passes from a cold to a warm room. The additional liquid is provided by nature so that the blood may not become too thick through the loss of water by perspiration...
Music inspired him, Art fostered him. Born of Jewish parents in St. Petersburg (now Leningrad), he claimed direct descent from King David, sweet singer of Israel. This regal lineage bred in him a scorn of Kings. The Tsar of all the Russias made him court painter. One day he painted a picture of the Crucifixion-Holy Mary, in peasant costume, her face twisted with anguish, weeping over the naked body of her peasant son. The authorities condemned the painting. Should peasants mourn their woes where privilege looked on? They displayed it in public with brands of white chalk smeared over...