Word: manly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...will that many had denied their own Semitism. Such a denial is infinitely more provocative than a courageous admission. But since Herzl's day there are fewer Jews concealing their Semitism. ... I was the last comrade that Herzl talked with. He was a worn and spent man. I asked him whether we could not free him from the necessity of potboiling for his Vienna newspaper. . . 'I dare not,' he answered, 'lest it be said I live on Zionism rather than...
This Mary did, so successfully and with such persistence and missionary zeal that the two returned from Europe as man and wife. Soon Mary Victoria was pregnant, too, but that did not prevent Welding from deserting her "to find a place where there are high mountains and snows that never melt and nothing else except loneliness." Mary Victoria remained with her father because, "even though I have lost love, I may become a power for good in the life of my child." Milly went to New York on the trail of "something worth loving...
...MAN SCANS His PAST-M. Con-stantin-Weyer-Macaulay...
Every year one talented man, usually young, writes a novel which France's Goncourt Academy immortalizes. This, Author Constantin-Weyer's novel, is the 25th to win the prize. A Man Scans His Past tells a story as much of prairies and snows as of death and love in Canada. Poetic descriptions of nature are lavishly strewn over a French horse-trader's trek from the U. S. to Canada where he sells his herd; then his mush onward by sled and dog, to the frozen Northwest for furs. On the way back death comes...
...once it was something of a disgrace for a pitcher to be batted out of the box, it is now a matter for comment when a pitcher lasts the full nine innings. "Best" pitcher of the year has been Robert Moses Grove of the Philadelphia Americans. A huge young man, Pitcher Grove propels the ball at such speed that few batters are able to time it correctly, and no matter how "lively" a ball may be it will travel no distance when the batter misses it. The Grove record up to last week-end was 16 won, 2 lost. Pitcher...