Word: finding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Beyond these a different motif enters into the stories which follow. Formerly the dream element gave us a vision of fair women or of a knock-'em-down contest between lions and dragons. Forsooth, we do those things better in our day, when on the stage you will find cubistic representations of the sub-conscious mind in action. Pop the lights on and off, revolve them in circles of green, yellow and red. Shoot off a pistol now and then; no doubt about it, you have caught the modern dream element. R. H. Sanger has the spirit of the trick...
...rhymes. Some critic might hold that our college bards have no singing in them whatsoever. Perhaps it is more justly put to say that while their contents are rich enough, their throats are seasonably hoarse. I venture, however, that the keen ear of Dean Briggs himself would find pleasure in "He came upon a sunbeam to the fount, Unrippled mirror of that winged romance...
...exhibit catch themselves thinking, not of the lengths to which the artists go to prove their independence, nor of the distorted taste revealed in some offerings, nor yet of the clever wittiness of some; but on the contrary, of the reversion to that primitive state where artists find that their works are no more than mediums for expressing observations, where their paintings are like unto Aesop's fables, where their art becomes Dreiserian...
Mary, mother of Jesus: Earnest Christians will find little in the Bible of the birth and early life of Mary. The so-called "Protevangelium Jacobi" written in about the 2nd Century A. D. gives more, says that Joachim (supposedly of the royal house of David) was her father, Anna (supposedly of the priestly house of Aaron) was her mother. Late in life, after angelic visitations, to Anna and Joachim was born a daughter, Mary. Roman Catholic dogma says that she was herself immaculately conceived.? Early theologians, while maintaining the freedom of Mary from earthly sin, held that...
Looking into the future, Commander MacMillan said, "When your generation is grown up, you will be making yearly excursions to the North Pole regions. My generation will find it and yours will develop...