Word: marked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...earthquake must have been under way at the time of Flagg's conception . . . and when he first saw daylight a hurricane, which happened to be in progress at the moment, swept Flagg through a couple of barn doors. He was, however, blown back into his crib with the mark of fair-weather defeat writ all over his pan and not a tear could wash out a feature of it. Result-cut in TIME. To gaze at this conceited cookie-cutter countenance takes the courage and strength of a Daniel to bear up under the shock. Just what does this...
...Humanities) "Suppose the following 17 statements had been presented to the typical educated Egyptian of the Empire Period (1600-1200 B.C.). Mark (1) if he would have agreed with the proposition; (2) if he would have disagreed; (3) if he would have debated the proposition without necessarily agreeing or disagreeing; (4) if he would have found it meaningless: Murder of a freeman is wrong; the earth moves around the sun; all property holders must pay taxes to the government; naturalism is a possible objective in sculpture; comedy is a superior form of drama to tragedy...
...physicians who, according to Federal Trade Commission information, have used their professional discretion to make use of "Radithor'' include: Thomas S. Pitt of Pine Tree Health Resort, Highpine, Me.; Benjamin Franklin Bowers, St. Benedict, Pa.; Lillian Morgans, Middletown, N. Y.; Gustave Desy, Millbury, Mass.; J. Frank Small, York, Pa.; Mark Manley, Brooklyn. None of their patients is known to have died...
Like the cart before the horse, U. S. civilization seems to trundle awkwardly ahead of civilized Americans. Critic Brooks, who hopes and works for a different mode of progress, has shown in The Ordeal of Mark Twain and The Pilgrimage of Henry James, what happened to two horses who got in front of the cart. In his biography of Emerson he shows how a most inspirational civilizer hitched his own wagon, tried to hitch the U. S. juggernaut, to a transcendental star...
Home again, Helen finds it more dreadful than ever. Thurso's mother hates her, watches her like a hawk. Between lust for Helen and visions of his father's ghost, Mark begins to go mad. To remove all trace of his father's memory, Thurso cuts clown the humming cable, is cut down himself. Hopelessly crippled, in ceaseless agony, he hangs on to suffering and life. Helen, who hated Thurso for his irreversible will, now loves him for it. In mercy she tries to put him out of his torment, but he will not allow her. After nis crazed brother...