Word: elementally
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...That element which packs lecture Lalls to the doors and which changes the function of aisles from that of pathways to that of seating space is what has been called, for want of a better term, the ability for great teaching. Where it is jacking one has courses attended by students whose attitude is complacent, uninterested and guided by other lights than the bright flame of intellectual curiosity. Where it is found there also one may find men to whom books are more than, required texts: men who have come together, almost in the ancient Greek manner, in order that...
...John Robert Clynes, shockheaded, beady-eyed, a leading Laborite of the moderate wing, thought the only element of surprise in the decision was that it had come so late. Added he: "Some of us have expressed our horror at the shooting of 20 Russians [in Russia] as an act of inexcusable murder. I cannot understand the mentality of those who denounce acts committed in one country and gloss them over when committed in another country. Murder is murder the whole world over...
...last week to a fish show, which is quieter than a dog show, prettier than a horse show. At a fish show, small creatures with few desires swim around in their tanks, staring out with gulps of incredulity at the pallid, blurred faces of monsters moving awkwardly in another element...
...elections at a time when the opposition parties are known to be financially embarrassed may well return Mr. Cosgrave and his party to the next Dail with a comfortable surplus of votes; for his narrow escape has alarmed the conservative business element and has shot Irish politics with a keenness it has lacked since the first Free State elections. At present everything points to a big victory for Mr. Cos- grave...
Artists, remembering figures on old vases of boys holding the wild, light reins of hurrying chariots, marble men lounging on their pedestals in an effortless perfection, men behind plows or on top of girders shoving or straining in to a sudden rapid beauty, could not deny some element of truth in these remarks. Nor could they regard the term "beauty show" as applied to a procession of pseudonymphs kept decently warm by hairpins and the emblem of their hometowns as more than a misappellation, not to be corrected by the inclusion of seminaked gentlemen...