Word: earthly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...never expect to keep live in literature. The clever, and this is a generation of the clever, are too engrossed with surface delights to sense the bitterness or beauty of the depots. America is apparently devoid of the comic spirit. She must buffoon or burrow herself into the earth of realism. And buffoonery is not lasting. Mr. Sherman has illumined that fact many times with the light of common sense. And if she must bury herself, it must be in real life, exactly as the American saga is doing. That the new saga lacks humor is pathetic but too evident...
...Install now seismographic stations in many localities, with a view to studying strains on the crust of the earth and perhaps foretelling the exact location of the worst upheaval...
...Bowman thought of a scheme. He built a flagpole over his grave and attached a flag and halyard. When he feels life departing, he will crawl into the coffin, raise the flag, and the people in the valley, knowing his signal, will climb the hill and shovel the earth over...
...Supreme Court. Our Supreme Court has settled eighty-seven such disputes between our States, and without the Supreme Court our States would certainly more than once have been in war. Now the hour has struck for enlarging the peace group one stage further to involve the whole earth by setting up a Court between the nations and clustering the nations into a League...
...World Court is as authoritative as our Supreme Court, we shall have abolished war as an institution wholly and forever. Each previous step of enlarging the peace group has left something outside and, therefore, was incomplete. Occasional war was inevitable. But when the peace group involves the whole earth there is nothing left outside and the only war possible is civil war, which by the nature of the case seldom happens and is outlawed...