Word: humbler
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...also learn that the Lawrences, D.H. and Frieds, when they were living with Murry and Katherine Hansfield, created a domestic situation which humbler people would have been forced to terminate in a week. Night after night Lawrence, and remember it was a small house, cried out at irregular intervals in an extremely loud voice, "Jack is killing me!", and this was done when Lawrence was in full possession of his health and faculties. On another occasion Lawrence turned on Murry and shouted," You're an obscene bug, suckling my life away!" And still the Murrys did not move...
...modern Athens is Madison, Wis.; nor is the University of Wisconsin's Dr. Alexander Meiklejohn a Socratic humbler for whom the hemlock cup awaits. But Wisconsin may look at Greece. To do so it opened in 1927 an Experimental College, whose 100-odd students wore Athenian owls on their blazers, gathered in earnest groups to study, first, the Greece of Pericles' Age, then America of the last century. Viewing the two whole, the students might learn to think and live wisely against their contemporary background. So thought Dr. Meiklejohn. To his insurgent College came farm-boys (of native and foreign...
...Humbler Venetians passed the U. S. building by, rushed to see what was on view this year in the German Gallery. Two years ago the German nudes exhibited were so very specific that Pietro Cardinal La Fontaine, Patriarch of Venice, forbade the devout to enter the unhallowed spot...
...Elizabeth ordered her imprisonment, another Queen Mary came last week. King George was there, so were the Duke & Duchess of York and about 600 of the flower of Scotland's society, the men in uniform or Highland dress, the women in expensive picture hats and chiffon dresses. Humbler Edinburgh citizens who were not invited did not miss the garden party. Thousands of Scots perched like rooks on the bluff called Arthur's Seat, overlooking the Palace, and enjoyed the party gratis. Through their binoculars they could see King George in the scarlet tunic of the Scots Guards; Queen...
...picture as a whole gains much in the beauty of the language and from the restraint with which the sound effects are handled. As a result one is left with a delightful, if incomplete, picture of the humbler quarters of Paris...