Word: forbearance
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...them "there emerges above all the vivid figure of Lenin himself." Lenin's letters are like business letters. But it was a big business he was about, and as his scheme slowly progresses from small successes to failure to near-success to triumph, even businessmen readers will scarce forbear to cheer. Irritation, anger when schemes go wrong or partners fail him, Lenin frequently shows; personal feeling, almost never. The letters to his wife, Krupskaya, and references to her before and after marriage, are as impersonally businesslike as all the others. Only in his letters to his mother does...
...tears for the nature of things, Queen Marie cannot forbear to drop a timely one on the catafalque of Royalty...
...letter of Charles Edward Thomas, of Indianapolis, in your issue of Sept. 14, about South Carolina, is so strangely well-informed, so keen in accurate discernment, that I cannot forbear to write you saying so. Only one who knew his subject would have quoted from John Locke's Fundamental Constitutions, written at the Earl of Shaftesbury's request, for the Lords Proprietors of the Colony, the warning against a ''numerous democracy." It may be that a too numerous democracy is a present-day affliction also beyond South Carolina's borders...
...back to the Tower and much troubled again with my eyes. I do fear that one day I must forbear to write my journal it taxing my sight exceedingly, and then again I know my days are few, but God prepare I will continue until the year is done. Thence to bed, sleeping on my side, being very sore...
Though denied the use of their parents' names, most of the lyrics in Whether a Dove or Seagull have a determinedly casual stance which suggests a male forbear: U. S. Poet Robert Frost, to whom the authors acknowledge an obvious debt in their dedication. Like him, they refuse to sentimentalize their fondness for nature, insist on its hostility to humans as well as its charm. But while robust Poet Frost nevertheless finds permanent solace among his Vermont hills and pastures, in the minds of Poets Warner & Ackland the bryony and woodbine of which they are fond are entangled with...