Word: heart
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...your issue for March 4, you say, "Walter Hampden, whose heart is on nobler things, offered Rostand's sentimental hero to the sentimental U. S. Public." Allow me to say that there is no nobler thing than Cyrano. WM. LYON PHELPS...
...Moscow chemico-pharmacists, Theodore Andreiev and Alexei Alexandrovich Kuliabko, pumped a modified Ringer's solution* into the veins of a man dead 29 hours. After some hours the cadaver's heart began to beat feebly. The body developed a slight warmth. The throat gurgled. The eyelids fluttered. The reactions resembled the partial reviving of a drowned person. Unbearably horrified, the experimenters stopped their pumping. They let the corpse subside and go on to its normal course of decay...
Died. Theodore Frelinghuysen Merseles, 65, of Bronxville, N. Y., president of the Johns-Manville Corp., onetime president of Montgomery Ward & Co., onetime bicycle enthusiast & manufacturer, native of Jersey City, N. J.; of heart disease; in Del Monte...
This penetrating indictment is one that might cause much pain and heart-searching to the conscientious college man. It might drive him to despair. It might induce him to abandon his hypocrisy and leave college. Fortunately, it will do none of these things, for the simple reason that the college man is, or should be, busy enough and sane enough to have no time for such speculations. If he reflects upon his own attitude toward his work, he passes it off with the thought that his attitude at the end of college is going to be more important...
Mark French, youthful painter, Robert Newlands, less youthful Oxford Don, were both conducting parlous affairs of the heart; and had it not been for their eighteenth century habit of writing each to the other as confidant, neither affair would have turned out so satisfactorily. Into the Lake Country Mark pursued his love-at-first-sight, a charming bit of femininity out of Jane Austen, or-remembering her ferocious father and mysterious exile at Farthing Hall-Jane Eyre. Mark had no sooner wrung from her a timid confession of love than she dismissed him, insisting that her duty lay with...