Word: hell
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Thus we have lived into the Senior year when the very incautious and some-what unfamiliar cry of "Hell, I've got to do some work" is often heard. Frank as it is, it connotes the arrival of a mentality...
...said handle the forefinger of a saint, but glass cases stand between us and the ancient treasures like the impassable ether between Heaven and Hell. There they are, the immortals; Chaucer: the magistrates arresting John Bunyan (see, they present the warrant to him now): Cromwell somewhere behind his death mask (we feel secretly glad that he is, indeed, dead); and many others vaguely peeping through the pages of books. Did you know that the fastidious John Dryden was once a boy, went to a grammar school, actually scrawled his name in a Greek copy book with large letters...
...forty-million-mad" nation cannot help but create, and then kill, its artists. Until it learns to read and study the great books within its reach as well as discuss "hooch" and the Hell Gate Bridge, "Nick Carter", with their authors dying forgotten, will continue to be its chief representatives in the field of "non-material achievement...
...some who disagree, however, not only with practiced quackery but with Sir Arthur himself. Spiritualism has been debated from the time of the Orphics and before, and views on life after death vary in degree from the tenets held by the absolute agnostic to the painted heaven and fiery hell of the hide-bound theologian. The great obstacle to any scientific discussion of the question is terminology; Sir Arthur is necessarily handicapped by attempting to express spiritual theory in material fact-words. It is about as difficult to use a rather paradoxical analogy, describing a football game in the language...
...appetites at the most. Why are they here? The most golden time and opportunity which they waste would gladly be used by our fellows. Let them go to an island in the sea and there sing songs until they die. They have anticipated heaven and envy us our hell...