Word: loree
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Navy Lore...
...sailing a flaming ship into a towering waterspout. There is much overwritten "psychology" in the book, but also much sensitive color-the reflection of a ripple crossing a ship's eager figurehead like a smile; a cloud of gulls "flickering like white flames" over brown glebe. The sea-lore is strong and spacious. Author Jesse, a grandniece of the late Lord Tennyson, has sailed many an ocean between spells of being a London literary celebrity and Crown servant...
...Danish farming system and Swedish forestry lore should be applied," said he, "to U. S. problems...
...ever published, a Sesquicentennial Number. Though the Sesquicentennial achieves little prominence except its mention on the cover, an arraignment of Manhattan's last theatrical season in 67 compressed capsules of reproof give to the issue an appropriate Quaker tone. Mr. George Jean Nathan, a critic steeped in theatre lore, discerning though scurrilous, able though loud, composed the 67 indictments with nice variety of language. A few follow...
Philosophy has been many things to men. It has been life itself, it has been a system embracing more than life, more recently it has become one of the storage places created in life by the multiplicity of modern knowledge, where metaphysical lore and technical logic have been placed as in a well-ordered catalogue. That it is in more than one way returning to some sort of intimacy with the problems of man is a supposition borne out by recent events. Such an one is the recent report of the Student Council Committee on Education wherein is recommended...