Word: mirabeau
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...marked degree while she was translating The Essence of Christianity." From this work Marian learned Philosopher Ludwig Feuerbach's notions about free love. She had met "the ugliest man in London," George Lewes, the biographer of Goethe, who at first sight impressed her as a "miniature Mirabeau." With inflexible tranquillity Marian Evans decided to become Mrs. George Lewes (as she afterwards called herself), despite the fact that Mr. Lewes already had a wife and children. For some 24 years the homely woman lived with the ugly man in an exalted state of semi-ostracism, though literary friends continued...
...LUCIUS MIRABEAU LAMAR Dallas...
...tore the veils from his vision, made him a poet and a seer--the other involved him in a nebulous World-Idea and a style of tortured courage. Never did one man, and a lone Scotchman, strive to embody in himself ideals so contradictory--guessing like a child about Mirabeau, about Lafayette, and guessing rightly, but struggling with words and phrases which stretched like impossible pagodas into a German sky. Stormy, ill-tempered, tenacious to truth and error alike, once he had spoken but yet so glorious in his failure as brave as splendid, as startling as a Norse...
...nation's Press, ordered a search by Federal agents. Mrs. Robins feared her husband had been kidnapped by gangsters to avenge his Dry sleuthing in Florida last spring. Acquaintances later reported seeing him hurrying around Chicago. Commented Lemuel Parton, oldtime newsman: "Col. Robins, no longer like Mirabeau, has changed a lot. Halsted and West Madison Streets haven't changed at all." ¶After a two weeks' vacation Hoover Secretary Theodore ("Ted") Joslin returned to his White House job. His substitute Edward Tracy ("Ted") Clark, old-time Coolidge secretary, faded out of the picture, returned to Drug...
...Astor.... POP....and he said that if we'd take two cases....oh, the Michigans is it? ....football? and all this time me thinking it was hockey....oh, well it all just goes to show one must keep abreast of the times....abreast, a breast of duckling....Mirabeau?....Eugenie?....sou cloche?....thanks I'll take mine with seltzer....sing a song of seltzer, sing a song of hey, waiter, how's for some more glasses?....yes, I know, but they just sort of slipped....some more of that fizzy magoozulum?....well, I don't mind....they say it's good...