Word: faces
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have confidence, however, that when the ntelligent, the patriotic, and the well-to-do, as .veil as the plain people, face the real issue, vhen they see whither we are tending in mak-ng fun of the law and of its violation, all of vhich tends to lead to support those who are engaged in violating it, when they realize that others not so patriotic, and who are evilly-minded are only too glad to bring about a demoralization of all law, as the open violations of the liquor law necessarily tend to do, then I believe we shall rouse...
...This he did by taking a turn of the line around a rock. In one instance while the leader was ascending, the rope kept paying out as it should and the guide disappeared out of sight above the two followers. Suddenly a large rock fell past them, clearing the face of the cliff by five or six feet and a moment later the unfortunate guide followed it. The turn of rope around the rock saved the others for the sharp edges of the rock severed the rope as the weight of the falling body strained it. At any rate...
...there is more in it even than that. A man who remembers a face, or who considers an introduction of the evening before ample reason for a nod, is no better, in my estimation, than one who thinks membership in the same club with one of these relaxed persons a justification of continued bowing to aim. And there still exist--can you believe it?--those who think playing on the same athletic squad full license for a greeting outside of season...
...young Negro was in the room, clutching a hatchet. Mrs. Stribling's husband, a powerful man, lay dying in the bed, his head mangled. The Negro chopped at Mrs. Stribling, gashed her over the eye. She begged for mercy. "Well, then, go and wash your face," he said. He went with her, washed his hands. He asked to see her baby and stood over its crib for several minutes. Like a mother partridge playing broken-wing, she begged him to leave the house with her. He took her to the swamps on the edge of town...
Major Barbara might more descriptively have been titled, "A spectacular demonstration of the theory that money makes morals-complete with characters, including: one Millionaire; one Earl's Daughter or Millionaire's Wife; their Son, an imbecile sample of Young England; their two Daughters, one beautiful of face, one a Major in the Salvation Army, who tries to convert her father; two Suitors, a noisy Nitwit and a Professor of Greek who becomes by the odd and engaging circumstances of the plot, heir presumptive to the Millionaire's munition works and who, by the odd and engaging developments...