Word: lieing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...present system should be changed, because under it the raw material situation in Turkestan may remain unexplored and the forest laws of medieval England may lie forgotten beneath the silt of centuries while the student who would burrow for such knowledge is balked by the carelessness of other Widener patrons. No longer should the four week privilege obstruct the channels of knowledge...
Hugging the coast of southern Georgia lie half-a-dozen bosky islands-Jekyl, where the Vanderbilts built up an estate; Sapelo, where Calvin Coolidge vacationed; Sea Island, developed as a swank resort by Howard Coffin. St. Simons Island, connected by a causeway with the mainland and with Sea Island, is sparsely populated, but many a tourist travels its white-shell roads, lined with Spanish moss-hung trees, to see its Wesley Oaks. Beneath these, and in old Christ Church nearby, the founder of Methodism preached two centuries ago. In the dark of one night last week, someone stole past...
...communist is treated with as much interest and care as the believer in American democracy. Yet it is perfectly clear where the author's sympathies lie. The communist is not made a contemptible figure as in "The Ghost of Yankee Doodle" or "The Prodigal Parents," but he is made a hateful one. He is aptly called humanitarian who hates humanity. He is working for a goal and is wrapped up in an ideology that make him renounce friendship, patriotism, love, and self-interest. But the fallacy is that he is not only impersonal, but also inhuman; he is not even...
...centred children who almost drive him crazy and then try to lock him in a sanitarium so he can recover the mental balance they have destroyed. Son Howard is a handsome, stupid, unprincipled college boy who is always borrowing money, wrecking his father's cars, and trying to lie his way out. Daughter Sara is a handsome, ill-natured poseur who becomes a Communist, falls in love with an agitator, overdraws her allowance of $1,000 a year and spends most of her time making poisonous remarks about her father. Thus, although it contains the story of Corn-plow...
...Lie all the fetid miseries of the world...