Word: fragmentism
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Getting nominated for Congress-and elected-is different from Aldermanic campaigns in Manhattan. Mrs. Pratt's opponent, Phelps Phelps, is experienced and determined. Politics is a passion with him. He is a sort of Republican Tammanyite who spends all but a fragment of the $70,000 per annum or so which his father left him, on presents for his precinct voters-milk, Christmas stockings, coal, Easter eggs...
...last splintered fragment fell, Citizen Morren waved his pick at the huge crowd and helplessly irate police below, crying: "Long live Belgium! and France! and America! We Belgians are not all Boches like Monsignor [expectorating] Ladeuze...
...Italian quarter of New York gives a clear-cut sensation of a transplanted fragment of the mother country. . . . You know the dream of all Italians in America is to return to Italy...
...when his plays, though written for an audience of fifty years ago, are being revived with success. Ibsen's frankness no longer causes sensitive theatre-goers to shudder, for he has long since been surpassed in that respect by lesser men, playing loudly the chord that formed only a fragment of his symphony. Ibsen, like Shakespeare, is in no great danger of growing antiquated; but if he were, his services in throwing aside the torpid and illusive glow of Romanticism, that had so long held European literature entranced, would still be invaluable. As so often happens, the Naturalistic movement introduced...
...textile gift of Mrs. R. H. Monks, recently made to the Museum, includes a sixteenth century chasuble in an excellent state of preseration, an eighteenth century English embroidery showing the influence of Indian painted fabries, a fragment of early sixteenth century tapestry, and a Bokhara embroidery that is dated early as the eighteenth century...