Word: instruments
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Swedenborgians. As everyone knows, Emanuel Swedenborg (originally Swedberg; 1688-1772) was one of the most original geniuses in history. He dealt capably and creatively with poetry, history, philosophy, art, geology, mathematics, astronomy (nebular hypothesis), crystallography, anatomy (texts on blood, brain and nerves); conceived an air-tight stove, a musical instrument, a submarine, a "mechanical carriage," a means of testing boats by models, a dock system, an air gun, a method of hydraulics. The last 28 years of his long life he turned to speculation on the human spirit, organized a code of conduct, pictured a continuous existence for the soul...
This is all a mistake. Reall, you know, I am not the Vagabond, No, he is living up to his name by roaming through the rainy region of Boston. Brockton, Brighton, and Brookline, chasing--not a burglar--but an idea. When last seen he had queer instrument of a green color under one arm with which he said he hoped to bag the idea. Imagine searching Boston for an idea. I told him he was an optimist...
...opinion that the recent League crisis was due mostly to the fact that through Germany's entry the League as an instrument of the victor states would be basically altered...
...ought to be neighbors," said a resonant Scotch voice;-the voice of Ramsay Macdonald. While the Lord Mayor of London and many another beamed, Mr. Macdonald added: "and handle our affairs in a neighborly spirit." Having thus spoken, he put down the polished instrument into which he had been speaking. He had inaugurated the first commercial telephone service between London and Berlin. He had spoken well. Subsequent conversations were carried on at a three-minute rate equivalent to $4 during the day and $2.50 at night. Inquisitive persons asked: "To whom did Mr, Macdonald speak?" They were abashed to learn...
Devils turned out to have depth and determination. It tells of a buried community in the cotton fields and how the Christian religion reached them all awry and drove the prettiest daughter of the village to delirium and death. The instrument of the Word's distortion is a ranting fanatic of a priest, who boils accurately through the play in the interpretation of John Cromwell. The play is brutal and unpleasant, but a sound and at times swiftly exciting piece of dramaturgy. How much of it is truth and how much of it is theatre, only a witness who knows...