Word: earthly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...called because its 35 boxes?the lower row, known as the parterre?are roughly in the shape of a horseshoe, the stage being in the heel. A gala night at the opera concentrates about as much wealth in this broken ellipse as in any other given spot on the earth's surface...
...Crouching pallid in the dock, abject or surly or swooning, his lips parched, his fingers fumbling over his face, the soul within him howling like a dark creature brought to earth, a murderer waiting for sentence. The judge's words drone in his ears, he lifts his sleeve to hide his cheek. It is important, that sleeve. If suave, well-turned, fashionable, this agony and sweat will pass; he will merely remove his abode to a comfortable jail where he can eat, sleep, exercise, read, at leisure. If the sleeve be tattered, he will dance on the wind...
...creature of nightmare . . . the most abject embodiment of mankind on earth...
...meaning idiot or village fool. A cretin is a creature of nightmare, humanity's most loathsome being. The word, even in adjectival form, is seldom used jocularly by people of discrimination, since one is seldom called upon to refer with jocularity to the most abject embodiment of mankind on earth...
...Sodality, whose members termed themselves "the few who were chosen to represent the Muses on Earth," often supped together at Willard's, the Cambridge Bar; and at Porter's Tavern, learning to choose between cheap ale and "Real old London Particular...