Word: mood
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...labor agitator, is one of the most unusual characters in contemporary literature. Fleeing the vengeance of a hostile mob, he arrives in a tine settlement of Finns, living peacefully on the shore of Lake Superior in the shadow of a scowling granite face which Nature, in an angry mood, has carved on the mountainside. Sick to death of his fellowmen, he grasps at the ideal of the superman, whom no laws or conventions can touch, and seeks to raise himself to this height. The villagers are raw material for the exploitation of his new-found ideal. He lusts...
...despite the vagaries of varied mood mottled memoirs of the arts, poetry, after all, is poetry. And Gerald, though an excellent gunman and a fairly creditable crook, has yet to write poetry. Indeed his muse is not sufficiently--to use his own words--distillate. In fact one might even believe murder detrimental to that divine something which breeds noble rime. But then again there is Francois Villon. Modernity lacks savoir faire even the rogues are prosaic...
...hero is a dusty little clerk who, through the facile mood of fantasy, finds himself face to face with himself as a boy. He was a freckled, active, vital kid. He is a pale and pulseless man. So the kid goes along with him for a while and stirs his spirit to the point of telling his boss to go to the devil and asking his girl to marry...
...sudoriferous hours, the friends of Senator Harding executed their coup and Harding was nominated. Then while plans were being laid for nominating some good regular for Vice President, the obdurate Judge McCamant rose and suggested the name of the Governor of Massachusetts?quite unexpectedly. And the convention in a mood to do the unexpected, nominated Calvin Coolidge for Vice President. And in the summer of 1923 Fate played another of its tricks and Calvin Coolidge became President. There was no doubt whatever that Judge McCamant was the primum mobile of the chain of accidents which made our present President...
Perhaps the pleasantest and most genuinely satisfactory page of the entire issue is number 327 with its untitled verses in mood of pastoral reminiscence and the facily accompanying sketches by "G. C." The naive simplicity of the illustrations suggests a last century copy of "Scribners" or "Out look" with its rabbits, daisies and butterflies, and certainly the stanzas are attractive by contrast with this winter of our discontent...