Word: lively
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Soon prudent gourmets of celebrity turned from the Count back to his writings, pondered once more the essence of his philosophy: "Anglo-Saxons are particularly prone to misunderstand me, because they find it hard . . . to conceive that a man is able to serve others precisely by living for himself. . . . Even in my childhood the words of Jesus, Woman what have I to do with thee?? spoke more directly to me than any other. . . . Only he who lives for the supernatural can, in the deepest sense, live for himself...
...Without a little passionate, furious mad relationship to your subject you will not be able to make him live in your writings...
Discussing American's foreign policy, which President Butler opposes, he said that he was "a stern realist" and had never found much satisfaction as an American in looking into the glass and admiring what he saw. "We live in an atmosphere of talk, we debate, we discuss and go home...
...death of Felix, Sheilah arranges a meeting with Roger, and although the story ends here, we may infer that they later marry, and according to the fictitious story book ending, live happily ever after...
...circumstances and their development are thoroughly simple. Mary Brewster is the last descendant of an aristocratic family, her ancestors having created such a place for themselves in their little Cape Cod community that her heaviest responsibility is to live up to her name. Since she is the heroine, it is only right that she be willing to take the artificial position lightly. She goes to work quite calmly and the town talks. Her best friend and adviser is a fine man, but not in her social plane. She is too generous to care for that. One knows at the beginning...