Word: evils
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...chapel. In the Ecclesiastes there is both an excuse for the students dissoulty and for his at tendance at the morning service before the hour of trial-"much study is a weariness to the flesh" and-here is the text of the sermon-"remember thou thy Creator... while the evil days come...
...devil preposterously horned and tailed, no paunchy, heroic Faust singing to the gallery. All that had been discarded. Instead, the curtain went up on one Faust, an aged dissatisfied philosopher with a voice a little pinched, and went down on another, a cavalier Faust, the creation of Mephistopheles' evil genius, a romantic with a voice fittingly curving and lush. Mephistopheles through it all was the Mr. Hyde to Faust's Dr. Jekyll. He was the embodiment of all the negative forces of life, cut by the same pattern as Faust, only his evil self...
...trying to beat the game and he is likewise stuffing machine made opinions, quotations, and similar paraphenalia down the throats of his customers. Naturally he is not as cupable as are those who patronize him. But for neither is there necessary any condonation. The Paid Tutor is an evil; a popular evil but not certainly, a necessary evil...
...Maschera evil Bolpo" a play by Maschelli, has been chosen for the winter production of the Circolo Italiano, it was announced last night after the club's dinner at the Union. No definite date has been set for the performance, but it is expected that it will be produced in the middle of February...
...operations, the last performed without an anesthetic, had not daunted Bratiano's spirit. He composed himself to sleep, inhaling pure oxygen, his swollen throat kept open by an inserted silver tube. As midnight tolled from a distant spire, the Premier stirred and seemed to rally. Then drops of an evil pus were discovered in his throat. Blood poisoning had set in. The great statesman who had doubled the area of Rumania during his eleven premierships was told that Death would surely claim him before dawn...