Word: happening
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...materials of an airship deteriorate rapidly. What will happen to the outer covering and the delicate inner cells when the ships are used in all weather and left attached to mooring masts...
This, unfortunately, does not still the ancient fond between authors and critics. The author feels that his whole literary life may be destroyed by a spiteful commentator, and if his work has no real merit, that is what is likely to happen. It is the resentment which any craftsman feels on having his work weighed and condemned, or perhaps accorded some slight mead of praise, by a mere layman. The obvious solution is to admit that critics are also authors and that the creation of an intelligent reading public, which is the critic's function, is no less essential than...
...Stalin is a silly sort of person. This man aims at being dictator of Russia-a thing which would be a catastrophe if it were to happen. My successor should never allow, in any case, that this man be appointed Secretary of the Communist Party...
...that the people have no right to resent and repudiate such a decision as that of our present Supreme Court in its effort to perpetuate child slavery? If there is any special virtue or sanctity in the opinion and oath of 5 of the 9 lawyers who happen to sit on a bench, how much more virtue and sanctity should there be in the Congress opinion and oath of the 350 lawyers and judges who sit in the Congress and Senate of the United States? What body of men on the face of the earth is so well qualified...
...well writing and riding this English language." He is more romantic than Romance, juggling nations, kings, comets, peasants in soaring obedience to unreined fancy. His characters talk as no man talked, act as no man acted, exist in a blazing phantasmal world where almost anything is almost sure to happen. Lacking a word, he coins one; where History or Science runs counter to his conception, he remakes History and Science. He is sheer imaginative flame run wild like a cosmic prairie fire. You can laugh at him-you cannot deny his vitality...