Word: knife
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...many people", said Professor Kittredge, "thoughtlessly ask why Hamlet did not plunge a knife into his father's heart early in the play. In the first place, this would conclude the tragedy, and in the second, we find by careful study that the times at which people would have the king disposed of are not real opportunities at all. Hamlet must be morally as well as physically capable of action. Viewing it in this light, therefore, his first chance comes late in the third act when he breaks in on his enemy kneeling in prayer; but of course...
...Life is a tool, to handle as we will," declared Dean C. R. Brown, D. D., of Yale, in a talk to 200 Freshmen in Smith Halls Common Room last night. "Here is a knife of keenest tempered steel. In the hands of the surgeon it is a means of saving life; in the hands of the assassin it becomes a fatal weapon. The tool itself is useless, it is the guiding intelligence behind it that counts. So it is with our lives...
...importance as his procuring the dish is his method of eating it. He takes fork with l., (l means left hand; r., right.) Changes same to r., tries to eat griddlecake with same, returns fork to l., whence to table and exhales. Picks up fork with l, and knife (by handle) with r., gets firm hold on both and approaches griddle cake. Griddle-cake slipping well on the mixture of caviar and heavy alights in neighbor's lap. (Now here is where his training is evident.) With a jovial laugh, Willie bursts...
...reported that he overcame these difficulties and is now a bank president or something; but he would surely have found it much easier if he had had at his tongue's tip a supply of timely speeches on what to do when at dinner you cut yourself with a knife, or how to behave at a mixed theatre party (Query: are we, the theatre, Mr. Smith, or the party mixed...
...chooses the latter course, he must make a still further decision. He may become "an advocate of force, a propagandist with a knife between his teeth" or he may contest himself with the more peaceful but no less useful life of a philosopher or teacher. Both classes of this second division have as a common function, "a search for truth without fear or favor". The members of both must be willing to stand on their feet and say what they think. Under our present civilization, Mr. Nearing continued, an ever increasing specialization is tending to disrupt all cooperation between different...