Word: loved
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Glasgow, Scotland, the Students' Union was a bedlam. The air was filled with tobacco smoke, flying playing-cards, the words and music of a slightly ribald chant, "Oh, Aimee, dear Aimee, we all love you so!" Hung in the hall were signs: GOOD OLD WHISKEY! LADIES MAY SMOKE! SCOTCH WHISKEY IS GOOD FOR ALL COMPLEXIONS! Vitreous vessels, onetime containers of whiskey, stout, champagne, were in idle profusion-all dedicated to the embarrassment of Aimee Semple McPherson, notorious evangelist who inadvertently had chosen university election time to speak to the studentry. Pitifully, persistently she tried to make herself heard above...
...gave Moses dispassionate insight into Hebrew nature-thus he chose not to enter Canaan knowing that it was the promised land only as long as it remained a promise. (The Bible claims, on the contrary, that Jehovah forbade him enter because he had sinned with a foreign light of love.) Untermeyer notes radical differences between Joshua's matter-of-fact record, and Nath's beautified narrative: Joshua itemizes the miraculous God-sent path through the Red Sea as matter of calculated tides and wind...
Giant Killer is eminently good reading for its new slant on a familiar story, and for its dramatic elaboration of scrimmages in love...
...impeccable artistic performance; or whether moving to New York from her Kentucky mountains proved too kaleidoscopic; or whether the critic lives up to his proverbial reputation for obtuseness, Jingling in the Wind is utterly meaningless potpourri of pleasant enough bits of satire, glimpses of nature, young men in love. A 21st century substitute for Prometheus is Jeremy, rainmaker, who journeys to the rainmakers' convention. On the way the motorbus is stalled, and each passenger tells an inferior Canterbury tale (the title of the book is also from Chaucer). Distinction is reserved for the format of one tale: only those...
...some day man would live by Reason; there was no room for religion in the behaviorist upbringing he gave his carefree earthy children. But this omission does not necessarily account for the boy's morbid passion for his youthful stepmother (indeed every man in the book is in love with her); nor for the girl's wild-faun beauty which ruthlessly lures the stepmother's brother, traps his eager senses, torments his touchy conscience, abandons him to suicide. Author Gibbs does not prove the necessity of something more than a "Great Design" behind evolutionary progress...