Word: heavens
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...coat of poesy; it takes a much-needed fall out of the young minor poet of today, the Sinclair type, who thinks only of himself, his woes, joys, experiences (the more degrading the better) and sneers at the old masters, who wrote of the world and the ideal and Heaven, as "philistines". Can any good come out of Longfellow and Whittier, they cry, as they make themselves drunken with the scented, perishable cadences of a Wilde of a Dowson. If Mr. Wilson were to start a Society for the Abolition of the Ego in Minor Poets, he would have...
...without it he would not have his work, yet that fact is the very glory of his profession, for although striving towards his own self-elimination, he is following the teaching of Christ. Such a profession not only calls for learning and medical skill but also for a heaven-given power obtained only through faith...
...belief that the empire is ruled by the will of heaven, the high position of learning, and the general practice of ancestral worship are the chief principles to be found in China. These principles have lately come up under new forms, and have caused the present revolution...
...present time hardly any efforts have been made to deal with the abominable situation in a scientific manner. Ignorance of the sources of disease and of the ways in which disease is spread is universal. The great mass of the people believes that the gods send epidemics, or that heaven wills that cholera or the bubonic plague should carry off its thousands. Up to the last few years municipal cleanliness was unknown. Sewers are found in but few of the cities. Town refuse which has value as food for animals or as manure is removed daily by hand in open...
...Even Gregg with his bipartizan tights and suggestive curves could not stop the heavy-hitting Redlegs. The score of 20 to 1 and two to play, does not represent the real difference between the opposing elevens. When interviewed after the game Umpire Knapp said, raising his bandaged hand to heaven, "Those News-gatherers were infinitely superior. They reminded me for all the world of the Orioles when Anson was in his prime. Oh those days--" Whereupon he relaxed into unconsciousness. Needless to say he was not bothered again...