Word: epochs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...urge for action, when they must get them hence. And there are also times when the sedentary life, with pipe, Tom Collinses, an arm chair and all the other appurtenances of leisure seem the only thing, indeed when they are the only thing. On the threshold of such an epoch the Vagabond has arrived, Dunhill in hand. He is sick of wastin' leather on gritty pavin' stones. He is also sick of college. Above all he is sick of grinding out his daily drivel for the unmitigated pleasure of Freshmen while they wait for their questionable eggs at the Union...
...peopled by men and women of flesh and blood. Lytton Strachey with his sardonlc pen had traced in a handful of fascinating actors upon a stage where before there had been only a dingy backdrop. But his contribution to literature was even greater than his kindness to a misused epoch, for he blazed a trail along which other men might follow...
...Government Printing Office's official text of the hearing, which became a ''best-seller" overnight, Gen. Dawes's profanity was carefully deleted. But newspaper reports of "the phrase which closed an epoch" were virtually unanimous in giving "Hell & Maria." Apparently he exploded the phrase more than once...
...Paris is an organized club of active Americans residing in Paris, meeting daily for luncheon. Purpose of the T. N. T.: Good fellowship, no boy orators (speeches tabooed), no head table (sanely bohemian). Our epoch days are our explosions, which take place now and then...
Railroad men realized that Mr. James's hammer blows brought an end to an epoch that was slow in closing?the Building Period. Next year when trains run over Great Northern-Western Pacific's new 200-mi. link, no other important construction will be underway. Some 249.000 mi. of track serve the LJ. S. well, perhaps too well. Future changes will be in the construction of systems rather than lines ?construction through financial liaisons; links completed with the signing of checks and the endorsement of stock certificates rather than the pounding of spikes...