Word: fallen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sooner had the gavel fallen on the 67th Session of Congress, than junketing trips at Government expense began. "Junketing"-a word of obscure origin-means a feast, a pleasure trip, a good time, and has for years been applied to the custom of members of Congress to spend the Congresional recesses in traveling about the world on public funds. Junketing trips find their justification in being ostensibly tours of investigation in the interests of the people. In practice, they are just free vacation sprees. Inspection trips this year will take Congressmen to Panama, Hawaii, Alaska, Russia...
...bombshell has fallen among the country's educators. It was tossed by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, in the form of a simple question: What is a school for? At present, the Foundation suspects that the country it wasting its good money, and its children's time, by filling the mind of Youth with superficialities and smatterings of everything in general. If the school curriculum were confined to four courses, relentlessly pursued--arithmetic, the mother tongue, government, and a speaking acquaintance with science--many would be saved and children made sincere and earnest. Prominent men have...
...simple, Mr. Anderson attempts the well-nigh impossible. His object is to show, through John Webster's experience, the mystery and miracle of the commonplace seen with the vision of inspiration. John Webster's love gives the world new aspects. The fronts of houses seem to have fallen away, and he can see the lives of the people in them. Every episode, every object, takes on for him a fresh beauty. He tries to give some of this sudden light to his wife and daughter. To the former he tries...
...land, half-shrouded in its veil of mysteries, has tinged with its own strange color the thoughts and actions of men. Antony learned there the subtle, inexpressible charm of the East; Napoleon and his army stood in awe before its pyramids; Shelley drew a moral philosophy from a fallen "Ozymandias"; and the modern world stands at the newly-opened tomb of Tut-Ankh-Amen and finds therein another Renaissance...
...that empty shell has succeeded, perhaps, where Alexander and the Caesars failed. Domains more vast than he or they could ever conceive of have fallen under the power of a name. A resurrection not of the spirit, it is true, but certainly the greatest that flesh alone can know. To one of Egypt's lesser kings chance has given fame more widespread than any monument could offer. Perhaps Sir Walter Raleigh was wiser than he knew when he penned the words "O eloquent, just, and mighty Death...