Word: fainted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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British artillerymen stationed at the summit of Langdon Stairs near Dover looked out to sea. They saw a snorting little tug-nothing unusual. But one keen-eyed soldier pointed to a tiny speck kicking up a faint spray. It must be another one of these channel swimmers...
...Everyman, and how Everyman beseeches all friendly shapes for aid who have attended him until that time, and how all forsake him. Fellowship bids him farewell; Kindred has a cramp in his toe-he cannot go with Everyman; and as for Good Deeds, his last love, she is so faint that she can hardly stand. Knowledge alone will help him over the way that he must go. Knowledge is as good as her word. She takes Everyman to Confession, and when he has scourged himself, brings him to Good Deeds who has won strength now to go along with...
...Judiciary Committee. This year he has been conspicuous as staunch backer of the Coolidge Administration on every issue except farm relief. But Iowa perhaps prefers radicals. Mr. Cummins was growing old and peaceful, so Smith Wildman Brookhart was chosen to succeed him as Republican Senatorial candidate this year. A faint flicker of the joys of old age must have come to Senator Cummins when he read the news of his defeat, eyes were strained from studying long documents, his face was lined, his hair was white; he was 76-but now he would retire to the quiet home...
...thinks he can diddle them again. He gets up to speak at a general meeting of shareholders. Catcalls, hoots, hisses. Shouts of 'Sit down!' . . . 'Take a Vacation!' . . He stands at the foot of the table, brown as wood. 'Gentlemen. . . .' His voice is so faint that they can hardly hear. 'Louder, louder!' And then he does it, makes his last bid and gets across. . . . Splendid stuff for the second...
...openhearted young New Englander, steeped in Vergil, enters their midst, to find that their innocent schemes range from curing the sick oaks of the Borghese Gardens and ridding the Sistine of a faint smell of drains, to catholicizing France and re-establishing the Bourbon monarchy. Moved, amused, half suspecting that he is among current incarnations of the Olympians, the young American constitutes himself their Mercury?messenger, confidant, historian?setting down their biographies and a few episodes...