Word: falle
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Baron" had used the alias, "George Adorgan," when attempting to enter Yale University last fall and had passed several worthless checks upon sophisticated New Haven merchants...
...Chinese civil wars, perennially a muddling since the fall of the Empire (1912), were fought with more than usual fury during the past fortnight...
...domestic possessions-a heifer, a bed. She suffers through an inconclusive courtship by a yokel with a good heart but no "spunk"; welcomes marriage with a muscular, free-spoken nomad of the hill-farms, Jasper Kent, whose children she bears and beside whom, as their narrow fortunes rise and fall, she lives on, always the self-reliant child of the roads at heart, trusting only her own being as the total of reality it is given man to know in his time. The writing is fibrous yet delicate-again like a vine. The author, a mature maiden lady, is little...
...into his grave. Alas! Whereto may I truste? Beaute gothe fast awaye fro me. . . . Why, than ye wyll forsake me all! Swete Strengthe, tary a lytel space. . . . Why, Dyscrecyon, wyll ye forsake me? . . . O, all thynge fayleth, save God alone. Voices call to Everyman; out of the darkening air fall their farewells-from the Cathedral, from the tower of the monastery, mocking and sad and sonorous. The Cardinal Archbishop and the rest of the notable company listened to an Epilogue ,that made clear the already too obvious moral of the piece and then hurried off to dress for a performance...
...lands planted with hops and grapes, but added: "A race that cuts out alcohol in order to multiply is the permanent slave type, destined to function like the worker bees." The burthen of his remarks was the old scare that the world's food supply will some day fall far short of its population. Childhood Memories. Compose yourself, be seated with pencil and paper, write down every thought that occurs to you for two hours. Do this several times and show the results to your parents. Very likely they will be able to corroborate many a thought as reflecting...