Word: matthews
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Paper Cap was stuck on the head of a fastidious Matthew Park by a singularly beautiful woman whom, until the moment when she so clownishly crowned him, he had taken for a civilized person. It was a cap of disenchantment. It symbolized for him all the crassness, the barbarity of a planet which he had long despised, which he thenceforward renounced. Months later, the beautiful woman forced herself upon him where he, scornful recluse, sojourned on his yacht, spied the symbol pinned to his cabin wall, called him "baffling?but a dear" for keeping it, kissed him. He thereupon ceased...
...other cases in the room are to be seen the manuscripts of various authors, in most cases the original draughts as sent in to the printer. Among the authors represented are Thackeray, Ruskin, Matthew Arnold, Scott, Keats, Dickens, George Eliot, and Charles Reade. The manuscript of Milton's Minor Poems is on exhibition in a photographic facsimile of the original...
...criticism of Signor Croce is not warmed by the appreciative apathy of a Matthew Arnold. Like that of the pompous old English bigot, his criticism is the God-given and incontrovertible judgment of the dogmatist. He approaches his task with a theory to expound, and deaf to all confuting evidence, he picks and chooses and maintains his position...
...very pleased to let you know your plea has been successful," wrote Father Ryan to Matthew Woll...
These, according to St. Matthew, are the last words of Jesus Christ before he ascended into Heaven. Accordingly, the initials A.B.C.F.M. have gone out unto the uttermost parts of the earth. They stand for the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, the missionary enterprise of the Congregational Churches, and the chief one in which all the Congregational Churches of the U. S. are organically united...