Word: momently
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Mann's interest is not in personalities or in noble characters. It is in the hidden forces of life which work despite men. From the moment of Pastoy's arrival, we are aware of an unusual atmosphere, of a certain tension and grimness. One of the first things which is pointed out to him is the road down which are brought, on sleighs, the bodies of the dead...
...come to recognize that the undergraduate is a student as well. The explanation of the turning back toward a more serious interest in the curriculum proper and away from the extra-curriculum activities in recent years would be a fascinating and enlightening subject for careful study. For the moment it does not matter. The swing is actually going on. In its broad sweep it was discussed and approved by Professor Lovett. Quite happily Professor Edgell has placed the Reading Period Plan in its proper relationshiup with the general tendency...
...madman was a clergyman and Conductor, when you receive a fare haunted him all the way to Boston from the moment when "the train started and the car-wheels began their 'clack-clack-clack-clack-clack' ". . . The funeral was a nightmarish medley of blue and buff trip slips for three-cent fares to Heaven...
...realizes for him a dream of beauty, the lower depths of his nature are called to the surface by the warm, red lips of Scarlet. The conflict goes on until Hilda, who is married to rich and lecherous John Elliot, dies. Still tormented by the remembrance that for a moment he has yielded to the wiles of Scarlet, David dreams of Hilda. Finally he too dies, presumably to join her later...
...wife and daughter, and certain signals had already passed between the latter and myself to lead to mutual thoughts. I was more than curious to know what was in these letters, but of course I could not ask and he ventured no information, as it had never for a moment occurred to him that anything save the most casual acquaintance existed between his editor and his daughter...