Word: life
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Next day every one talks about the brave fellow who, while others dithered, plunged in through the burning hall and saved a life. The burned-out neighbors thank him profusely. The servant thanks him. He is a hero, for a while?and then life gets back to routine. The fire becomes a legend...
...Life courses on persistently in the elder heroes of the War. Hindenburg has majestically topped 80, Foch 77, and good "Papa" Joffre 76. Early, therefore, seemed the harvest which Death reaped, last week, in striking down at 66 perhaps the greatest soldier-Scotchman, Colonel - Douglas Haig, first Earl Haig (British creation), but 29th Laird of Bemerside (Scotch), and, from 1915 onward, Commander-in-Chief of all Britannia's armies in France, famed as "Field-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig." Men will remember and revere him for Scotch virtues. The core of his unalterable concept...
Those who found this explanation difficult to understand would have been able to enlighten themselves by perusing the current issue of the Christian Century, wherein Dr. Jefferson discoursed on "Why I Have Found Life Worth Living." Said he: "I came into the world with an indestructible liking for work. This impulse in me to work shows no signs of abating. I have always loved work more than play. ... It is only when I am tremendously busy that my happiness mounts to rapture. And so when I look forward to heaven, it is to me a place of work...
Shouts of men, screams of women, and the deep bellowing of a bull deeply wronged, enlivened, last week, the vivacious street life of downtown Madrid. Heartless butchers had wronged the bull by buying and attempting to slaughter him. With daring and originality he had escaped from the slaughter house by leaping out a low window. Now, with tail up and lashing, with head low and small eyes rolling wickedly, he purposed to charge down a street thronging with pre-dinner-time crowds. Stalked fear, reigned panic. Suddenly from the doorway of an office building emerged the great matador* Fortuna...
...wife a lady from Los Angeles. Previously he had attended Yale whence he returned to his native Illinois to manage and consolidate gas works. He has represented Illinois in Congress six terms. Newspaper publishing, begun 22 years ago, has finally weaned him utterly from public utilities and public life...