Word: incubus
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...been placed in power, the American government has not hesitated to interfere in a financial and even in a military way. To many Latin Americans is seems that the influence of the United States, at first Intended to protect the infant liberties of small nations, has become a blighting incubus, stifling native development. The swaddling clothes, tenderly wrapped about these small peoples a hundred years ago, have, by natural growth of the protected object, become a straight jacket to cramp their initiative and curtail their liberties. The Monroe Doctrine, which originally protected Latin America from European imperialism, has become...
...difficult to determine fairly whether the Yale vote is but a sign of temporary mens iusana, or a result of an understandable desire to smash traditions, or in fact, as educators will fear, a last crushing blow delivered to free the glorious American sports forever from the age old incubus of scholastic fetters. If this latter is the real significance, the Yale Seniors are to be commended most highly for their unselfish, frankness. Other universities will doubtless try the same policy with hopes of comparable athletic results...
...fruit of Eden offered to him in the person of a lonely girl of the Georgia coast, prisoner alike of fear and a maniacal murderer. The man who fears life's traps finally clutches at the fruit, rescuing the girl while she saves her own soul from the incubus of fear that has ridden her family. The tale is told with extraordinary vividness and pungency by King Vidor, a director who can evoke a heart-quaking spirit of mystery without a single trapdoor. Frank Mayo, Virginia Valli, Ford Sterling, Nigel de Brulier are splendid instruments...
...hard knocks; his mother, capable, heroic, un- questioningly devoted; Grumps, the bibulous Scotch grandfather, one of the most keenly observed and original figures in recent literature; the histrionic and ineffective father; Godfrey, the actor-brother, with a sonorous voice and the manner of a Grand Duke; Aunt Julie, the Incubus, who descends in all her Victorian smugness on the Hunter household for a protracted and intolerable visit; Felix's wife, " a passionate, exciting pet"; old Jacob, his friend, obstinately liberal, who is " one of the men who deliberately choose their wives...
...editorials favoring the adoption of the resolutions, takes the same position on compulsory chapel that is recognized hare. "The purpose of a church service is to benefit the soul. Does Sunday chapel do this?" "Only a reactionary groups of men, pettishly tyrannic, can leave such an incubus saddled upon a university." Under the suggested change in the cut system "the undergraduate would understand that he is at college to learn something, not to expose his plastic self to the mould of a gigantic stamping machine...