Word: dis
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...many who remembered his radio talk of a week be fore, wherein he flayed intolerance. His unequivocal pronouncements led many to think of him as an ox-boned fullback with a brain. Instead they saw a bristling little man, no taller than many a grammar schoolchild. Similar surprises, some dis appointments will occur every Sunday night during the season...
...Miss Ramsay's hands a prosaic Corn Law becomes a matter of fiery drama, and the most eventful period of British parliamentary history becomes the most exciting; Her lucid analysis of the political situation sets the stage, her vivid incidental sketches of "Dis," Lord Pam, Victoria, people it. Impartial, she creates Peel with all his faults of temper, tactlessness and lack of humor, but sets him centre stage in all his grandeur as England's greatest Premier...
More subtle is the latest story, "Dis-order and Early Sorrow" (1926) in which nothing happens so melodramatic as suicide, in fact nothing at all, except convulsive disappointment in a child's soul. Professor Cornelius looks on complacently at the party his two older children are giving to a post-War medley of friends. He notices one of them, an actor, carries with him not only the sadness of his tragic roles, but on his cheekbones a touch of carmine that was obviously of cosmetic origin. And the professor wonders vaguely why the young man "did not cling either...
...aqueduct across the San Andreas rift would have long since been destroyed. Even the San Francisco earthquake movement did not faze it. If such movements had occurred they would have been reflected in the astronomic computations from Mt. Wilson, in our land surveys, or by dis placements along our many highways and railways which cross fault lines...
Friends staked their "Dis" to a country manor, terraced. "My dear lady, you cannot have a terrace without peacocks!"?this to his adored wife, whom Author Maurois variously records as 15, 12, 14 years his senior. Affectionate, loyal, her garrulous naivete was the joke of London. In a conversation about Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) she asked his address to invite him to dinner. But her cultured husband remembered: "She believed in me when men despised...