Word: life
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...clerk after a lifetime in his office spent watching his contemporaries promoted over him by the use of influence. The war and its injustice are intolerable to him. Then the news of his son's heroic death comes to him, and everything seems to have gone out of his life. We next see him ten years later--his grief has gone, his son is no longer a human to him, but a symbol of the glorious militancy of France. He has become full of words, insincere, prosperous, successful. The ambition which was dormant while his son was alive, has caught...
...responsibility for the delay, shared alike as it doubtless is by professor and college office. The unpleasant fact is, however, that the effects of this sluggishness have been such as to make a repetition of the error next year undesirable. It is only natural in a university whose intellectual life centers so about its library that any sudden pressure on this nerve center sends radial waves throughout its sinews...
...author, and champion of companionate marriage, characterized American civilization as "too feminine." "From the time that an American starts his education until he is almost ready for college, he is watched over and nursed by a woman." Mr. Russell declared, "business is the only masculine thing left in American life, and that is fast giving way before the invading woman...
...needed in the crowded tenement districts. In China the rapid birth rate is offset by pestilence and famine, but here in America where there is no immediate danger of such conditions, there ought to be some means of enabling a man and woman to enjoy the companionship of married life without the fear of the expenses that children would cause...
...Life and Works of Phidias," Professor Chase, New Fogg Museum...