Word: discontentedness
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"It is only the 'superior' or discontented man who really laughs and perhaps that is why laughter, like tears, is ugly-being made up of grimaces and contortions, the mask of a hard or selfish mind. . . .
Boston Disturbers. Before Governor Fuller granted a respite to Messrs. Sacco & Vanzetti the streets of Boston contained a number of persons who annoyed the police. Edward Holton James, nephew of the late famed Philosopher William James and Novelist Henry James, attended a Sacco & Vanzetti mass meeting on the Boston Common...
THE fate of many poets is to wrap their choice verses in collections of mediocre merit. To this rule, Miss Letts' latest publication is no exception. The mass of the poems harps rather vaguely on the conventional emotions which fill the crannies of men's minds. Mildly pesimistic warbles of...
Pangalos' Rise. During the political upheavals of 1920, General Pangalos was dismissed as Chief of the General Staff of the Greek Army in Asia Minor, a post which he had obtained by intrigue and managed to hold for only about a year. Ousted, he began to conspire with the likewise...
It was the ironic fate of Hans Andersen that he aspired vainly to almost every form of literary composition except the one in which he excelled. It was the tragedy of this neurotic genius's life that even the women he loved would not have him. He was the...