Word: herd
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ahead in his carriage; the Deputy Marshal carried the Silver Oar; the two City Marshals would not have been out of the picture for any money. It was a brave company, and not the least brave was Captain William Kidd, looking with a calm, unflinching eye on the vulgar herd waiting for the final scene in his romantic career. He was not the first of his profession to go to Execution Dock, which, as Stow has reminded us, was the usual scene of execution for hanging of pirates and sea-rovers at the low-water mark, and there to remain...
...worldly significance. Almost all men, and all men of character, believe that there is an intrinsic reason for moral conduct, apart from its material value to the man himself; that self-sacrifice for a worthy object is neither an irrational folly, nor a mere survival of a primitive herd instinct, but the noblest act of the most highly developed creature on the earth. The memory of the young men who died in the war is too fresh in our minds to let us think for a moment that their heroic deaths were due to a cold conviction of personal advantage...
...workshop announced yesterday that the designs for the sets of the four one-act plays which will be presented on April 13 and 15 had been selected. The sets for "Nothing At All" were designed by Miss Eleanor Eustis, for "The Herd Heart" by Donald Oenslager !23, and for "The Mourner" and "The Reception" by R. L. Wayne...
...account of the Qua Quan Quot, the scoral organization that once made itself felt in the Inca University. At the outset let me explain that the last word, Quot, seems to be translatable somewhat like the Latin "volgus" or Greek "polloi" and may be rendered in English as "herd" or "clan". It was often used by the Incas to refer to cattle, though in this case it seems to imply some sort of men. The significance of the other two words is unknown...
What is that point of view with which your reviewer, along with Captain Coningsby Dawson, so vigorously quarrels? Is it not that of the human individual in the midst of a herd enterprise, war? What Tolstoi painted with such superb restraint in "War and Peace" and "Sebastopol", namely: what happens to individuals when the state orders them out to kill their fellow men. It is the tragedy of the State's failure to touch the souls of men, the inevitable violence and injustice to individuals in any military machine, which "Three Soldiers" depicts afresh. It has been the theme...