Word: evils
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...five, Lorie was the professor's favorite child who had been allowed to stay up for a bit of the party. Content that the child should be made so happy, the old history professor wandered off for his evening walk, wondering if his enduring tenderness for Lorie was an evil contradiction of his sound intellectual belief that nothing was eternal but the past, that is to say, death. Pondering on these things, wondering too if justice consisted of more than sympathy, the professor trudged through the fog, down by the river, and home again by the rustic bridge...
...small to be of genuine importance in the Treasury, yet large enough to be an annoyance to purchasers of everything massed in the category of luxuries by the wartime administrators, war taxes have been allowed to exist for a decade, mainly through the failure of Congress to remove an evil it knew was unnecessary. A start has at last been made, however, and one of the most obvious examples of illegitimate taxation is no longer. The small but even more annoying nuisance taxes on such "luxuries" as theater tickets are still present, but they too should soon follow the automobile...
...Another day, in Washington, he addressed a joint session of the American Association of Museums and the American Federation of Arts. "We need to put more effort into translating art into the daily lives of the people," said President Coolidge. "If we surround ourselves with forms of beauty, the evil things of life would tend to disappear and our moral standards would be raised...
...excused on the grounds of slight interest; if there is a substantial reason for limiting the number of concerts to two, it must be found in the difficulty of training the singers for more frequent meetings of the type. However, similarity of programs is not particularly an evil, when the membership of the audience changes to some extent each time, and when the programs are of such real merit as those Doctor Davison offers. The period of the year from the April vacation to the end of May is not one of all-absorbing scholastic or athletic activity...
...known it." For, blissfully mated, they lived as king and queen, inventing all manner of pleasantries, such as the "House of the Doves," named after the creature whose love-antics are the most varied and delectable. But the gods, jealous of mortal contentment, sent a pestilence-the evil of goodness. Infected by goodness, mortals grew dull and spiritless as they debated dismally the line between good and evil. Their old tendency toward pleasures took vent in debauch, and the gods cared no longer to consort with them...