Word: liberal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...vineyards and through forests the lava moved toward Terzigno in two grasping, fingerlike streams. The villagers, rooted to their homes, set images and holy relics on trees and vines, to face the destroyer. In little groups they knelt, praying, with priests before them intoning the Litany, Ab ira Vesnvii, liber a nos, Domine. The flood forked in two just above the village, flowed around it on both sides, moved forward and crept together slowly toward the walls. As his home crumpled and smashed an old man, screaming curses, flung himself forward as if to stem the implacable advance. Carabineers seized...
...volumes of "La Caricature" contain many lithographs by Daumier, including some of his most famous, as "Mr. Prune" and "Mr. Guiz", as well as the work by his contemporaries. There is also a useful addition in a complete set of Turner's "Liber Studiorum...
Broken in spirit and body, Michel became at last "liberé" (fantastic name for those wretches who survive imprisonment, but, exiled for years to come, must report periodically to the Guiana authorities). Meanwhile there was the listless scramble for barest necessities of existence. Few as these were after prison fare, the possibilities of work were fewer still, since employers preferred gangs of supervised prisoners available at minimum wage. Michel, marveled at his long-lost joie de vivre, remembered his ambitions, and the oath that never would he degenerate to a contemptible liberé, crouched on his empty barrow awaiting...
...sprightly irrelevancy of comment which has stamped him as America's most potent contender in the field of illuminating biography. If one would know more about Pepys than can be gleaned from the colyums of the Manhattan daily that records the doings of his modern prototype, ecce liber...
...manuscript form contained in a little leather-covered blank-book, measuring six by three and three-quarters inches. The pages are filled with the close and somewhat difficult handwriting of the author, Ebenezer Turrell of the class of 1721. On one fly-leaf is the inscription "E. Turelli Liber" and on another the name of Andrew E. Thayer...