Word: fallen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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What should be the reception, then, of a guest who, upon being presented to a tiny child, sinks his fingers into its ribs and tickles it into a paroxysm? Who-when the child, exhausted by hysterical laughter, has fallen asleep-continues to walk heavily about, talking at the top of his voice and laughing blatantly...
Admittedly, the tutoring school has its legitimate functions. It may prepare sub-Freshmen for entrance, it may assist men who have fallen behind on account of sickness or some such valid reason. Conceivably it might be defended as an occasional help in time of trouble for those who, humanly if weakly, find themselves on the eve of an examination insufficiently prepared for the trial...
...have the mighty fallen and the inerrant promulgated untruth! So will it ever be with those who accept uncritically the offerings of the newspaper press...
Hungarian reviewers noted that Prince Galitzin has seen fit to adduce no evidence whatever in support of his assertions. They evinced surprise that he should have troubled to repeat a rumor that has long fallen upon deaf ears...
...dismissed by the world because the suffering is temporary. Youth forgets its love affairs, but the fire burns deep. Perhaps in its very intensity it burns itself out. Young Woodley, written by John Van Druten (an English schoolmaster), depicts the time when the blaze is fiercest. Young Woodley has fallen in love with the pretty wife of his mathematics tutor...