Word: filially
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...mache. Himself a man of energy, contemptuous of hot-house estheticism (which he flays in his Dedication and Preface, not the least stimulating portions of the book), he presents a three-dimensional, unsentimental Villon, a sensual idler and criminal, weak, mercurial, but possessed of four stable virtues-faith, patriotism, filial love, gratitude. Somewhere this man's tortured, gusty spirit was luminous with great poetry...
...contrast to her earlier saga of the Jewish Matriarch's passionate assumption of power, Author Stern now tells the story of an Anglo-Saxon mother's fluttering desire, not for power, but for filial devotion, which is doled out to her spasmodically, and none too generously by a generation impatient of self-sacrifice. With wit and wisdom Miss Stern divides her sympathies, but indulges of course the side of radiant, reckless youth...
Some of the titles are as follows: "An Affectionate Address to Young People on Filial Duty", "A Parent's Household Medical Guide", containing all the amusing and peculiar beliefs and prescriptions of the time. "The Evils of Illicit Distillation, "Saved in a Cell", and "The Profane Coachman's Conversion...
Justice Siddons eyed the young man, then gazed out a window. . . . Filial loyalty? . . . Miscarried justice? . . . Justice Siddons fined the young man $1,000 and called the father...
Fascist observers were aghast to think of the inference which could have been drawn had small Bruno mentioned only the King, or, worse still, only his father. No statesman, indeed, could have bettered small Bruno's tactful blending of filial and national loyalty. Skeptics wondered what smart Italian publicist had invented or at least polished the tale...