Word: human
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sarcastically declared Squire Baldwin. "I generally have a tolerable knowledge of what are their feelings. . . . Some people speak of the League of Nations as if it was a kind of celestial institution with a volition of its own, as if it was always right, whereas it is a very human body of fallible nations gathered in council and represented by fallible statesmen trying to do what they can to build up the League, which in time may perform all those services for humanity we dreamed of when the League was first founded. I don't propose tonight...
...King Adolo. The stench of rotting corpses was overpowering. Blackamoors had been crucified to ladders made between two trees, left there to feed the buzzards. On the city's mud altars the carved tusks and terrifying bronze heads, displayed in Manhattan last week, were caked thick with dried human blood...
...Madam,' I say, 'your child is receiving cocoa.' 'Yes,' she replies, 'our physician advised it.' 'Madam,' I say, 'when you administer cocoa to your child, you are giving the dear little one a poisonous drug.' . . . Oh, if the human race would but live right, what a beautiful people the human race would...
...Common-and he writes of autumn woods and winter nights. A dominant note in his poems is loneliness, but it is a loneliness the poet accepts without regret, and it is enriched with memories of childhood, with grave and unpretentious reflections on destiny and death, with flashes of warmly human or amusingly discordant scenes that the world offers for his attention. Cool and detached, the poems give little evidence of intellectual curiosity. Robert Fitzgerald can write vividly of boys playing marbles in a yard, speculating without passion or anger on their fates-one becoming a dealer in jewels and watches...
Admiring Shaw much less wholeheartedly, Maurois nevertheless makes him more human and entertaining than the other characters discussed in the book, while his essays on Wells and Conrad are uniformly dolorous and give little life to either. It may be news to most readers that a strong factor in Wells's social thought was the organization of the Boy Scouts; that in 1909 Conrad's earnings from his 13 published works amounted to less than ?5. Among English writers who took themselves, their ideas and art with great solemnity, the young Shaw appeared as a wild...