Word: innermost
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...watching, then steals away, deeply moved. . . . The scene is a good metaphor for the practice of sombre Psychologist Wassermann, the eminent German author of Gold, Faber, etc. He, too, studies people, himself and others, from a dusky corner; a steady, penetrating eye of consciousness unobserved in its observation of innermost human processes. Obscurity necessarily results when, by artistic gesticulation, this eye-in-a-shadow reports what it beholds to a companion or reader. Yet Wassermann's art is great, and, amply rewards people of patience and perception. He teaches a lofty philosophy of spiritual purification by experience. The central...
...talk continued. Deputies slept. Some walked out of the Reichstag and quaffed beer, in the Tiergarten (park) or sat on the benches. So noticeable was the exodus that a Socialist rose to move that the session be moved to the Tiergarten or loud speakers loud enough to reach the innermost recesses of the park be installed. After a few days they were required to wake up, vote on the measures. They did, passing them by average majorities...
...elected von Hindenburg but we will not do it again. We will vote for the Communists first," shrieked a haughty old lady, prodding a Nationalist in the stomach with her umbrella. Most of the Deputies had escaped into the innermost parts of the building, but some had not been so fortunate. They attempted to remonstrate with the angry crowd, but each time they opened their mouths they were howled down...
WANDERING STARS?Clemence Dane ?Macmillan ($2.25). An eerie, poignant fantasy of people within people, innermost selves. In the story of Damaris Payne, whose eyes came to be "trees without fruit, wells without water, wandering stars,"; Miss Dane has dipped her pen in moonlight and drawn the grotesque and lovely shadows of human souls...
...fires, but more, it tells of bright youth winning to brief glorious achievement and of riper age, which, having labored well, finds its highest accomplishment in dying for a cause believed-in. We have not forgotten. Those in the world who truly felt deeply in wartime, whose innermost beings were stirred, did gain something from the years of trial which time cannot wipe away. But we have glossed over the marks, a protecting covering has grown over the wounds, so that not all prying eyes about us may see. We guard our sorrows, our losses, for ourselves. They...