Word: moods
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...down. . . . If I am murdered many Catholic priests will pay the penalty. . . ." Of him Senator William Cabell Bruce of Maryland said: "I am afraid he will never be still till he has worn his tongue down to his tonsils." Though Senator Heflin was reported to be "in a receptive mood" the movement was considered anti-Smith rather than pro-Heflin...
...exhibitions of art which frequently claim his attention, but rarely does he step out of the role of listener and onlooker. Lectures without examinations or section meetings engender a feeling of passivity in the most ardent and avid pursuer of learning. Partly to break this habitual receptivity of mood, partly to vary the monotony of merely sitting and listening the Vagabond will attend the discussion of "The solution of factory conflicts by cooperative action" which Mr. Smith is conducting in Social Ethics 9 at 9 o'clock in Emerson...
...friends of the family, where an incredibly hard and stiff-backed chair was usually provided for him, from which perch he was left to contemplate the family portraits while his elders discussed matters beyond his ken. Now that such ordeals are done, the Sabbath passes in a flaccid mood that contenplates and condemns all things, particularly those of an academic tinge. There is scant pleasure in a contemplation of Monday's lecture schedule, and the day closes with a sense of futility and a dread of the professorial wrath to come...
Writing criticism for the Chicago Post he called for an American Lucretius to transform the new miracles of science into a new religion. He moved Athens to Iowa, in his imagination, and outlined a Sacred Book. Then he was the Pericles of Provincetown, creating the creative mood in others by his prodigious vitality, sympathies, humor, dreams. He remade his own house with ax, saw and chisel (building in an elevator when his wife's heart ailed) ; made beach sand yield greens; painted, modeled, wrote; created a new national theatre. On the wall of his house he made a fresco...
When I closed the pages in a mood of reminiscence and looked again at the cover rather wistfully, I though. Yes, we can make fun of children's stories, but this doesn't seen; to rub the bloom off. We like them all the more for their artlessness, their quaint little ways. And how harmoniously the editors worked together to create their Wonder-Book and to maintain throughout their tone of genial fantasy...