Word: humanity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...There was much waste of human life during the War, enormous loss of lives which should not have taken place. But it is doubtful whether, in any case, there was a more deliberate and useless waste of human life than in the so-called capture of Mons...
...removed his attention from his tennis proteges long enough to arrange a transcontinental foot-race from Los Angeles to New York. With more than 200 starters and handsome purses offered by the cities on the route, prospects were good for a cleanup, but Mr. Pyle counted too much on human capabilities. So far less than half the runners are left with the borders of Arizona yet to be crossed, and the chances of any of them reaching the goal seem much reduced. The magic of the dollar sign does not always suffice to secure freedom from anxiety, and the harried...
...convenient easement of the bonds. If your husband seems to be wavering, let him read in these pages the misery, the heartaches, the legal dangers, to the end that his sanity may return to him. . . . It will be by no means dry reading for the public. These are human documents . . . by no means without their humorous side...
Adam and Eve, the black and elaborate magic of James Branch Cabell's Something About Eve, should please readers of Shaw's Back to Methuselah. The volume is not without a certain philosophic realism. Anthropomorphic deities grow ponderously chatty over the direction of human destinies. Nonetheless Author Sheehan, after working for years, has produced a novel which treats of gods and men with such tenuous charm that one is almost sure the writer must have drowsed in Paradise...
...Vestal robs him of none of his glory. His marksmanship is still deadly, his virtue is still above the ordinary, and his adventures are still hair-raising. But he now becomes something which he never was before--a human being. Several times he misses his mark; he was, if often more crafty, several times outwitted by the Indians; and his exceptional virtue did not prevent his twice marrying without benefit of clergy...