Word: morass
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...Shaw, undoubtedly a predominant and scintillant Socialist littérateur of the Victorian Age, whose genius has spread to the contemporary era where it shines like a beacon in the stagnant morass of "middleclass morality," burst forth in the last of his Fabian Society lectures in a vivid address on Is Civilization Decaying...
Near Brussels on a field converted by heavy rain into a morass, 11 balloons (entries in the James Gordon Bennett cup race) tugged and tore at their moorings, buffeted by a high wind. Weather bureaus warned that the tempest, which was accompanied by lightning, would continue. Officials sought to postpone the competition but found their rules inflexible...
Premier Poineare made a number of speeches on the occupation and the resultant international political morass, but he was at all times exceedingly guarded. Unbiased opinion considers that the French are economically wrong and politically right. It seems likely that the French Government will be willing to modify its policy on this basis...
Trailing African Wild Animals. Mr. and Mrs. Martin Johnson are the latest tripod nimrods to return to Broadway with the pelts and carcasses (in celluloid) of giraffes and jungle tigers. In the classic English of a recent advertisement they bring the " mighty monarchs of the murky morass, pinioned and pictured...
...that Barnaby should find in the clear glass of Leda's sensitive beauty the reflection of his need. Richmiel, feline in her jealousies, refused to let Barnaby have his son unless he would go away, leaving Leda behind. He goes. But he comes back, just as the Crumb morass is closing again over Leda's head, and in the end they find happiness in a spiritual union. The Significance. Miss Gale has made her study by taking two extremes, the extremely sensitive and the extremely coarse, and putting the former at the mercy of the latter There...