Word: mortale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...second wife of Mexico's political boss and onetime President. General Plutarco Elias Calles; of a brain tumor; in Mexico City. Last June General Calles took his wife to Boston for a brain operation by famed Dr. Harvey Gushing who operated but told General Calles the tumor was mortal. General Calles' first wife, Natalia Chacon Calles, mother of nine, died in 1927 at Los Angeles whither Mexican law forbade Mexico's President to follow during his administration. The second wife, mother of two, singer, law & dentistry student, whom General Calles married in 1930, died with a double...
...golden Greece the Periclean playgoer knew by heart the Pride & Fall theme of classic tragedy. Hubris (???is) was the offense of the honest but haughty mortal who thumbed his nose at the gods and arrogantly defied fate. Certain as death, Nemesis followed to wreak the wrathful gods' retribution upon such a presumptuous creature. The hubris-nemesis pattern of drama unconsciously taught the Hellenic lesson of moden agan or moderation in all things. An Attic axiom: "Too much prosperity brings ruin...
...Vagabond was, they said, cynical, but they were wrong. There are excuses in this mortal life for anything, if they must be given, and while it is better to let the scoffing charge pass unnoticed, cynical is a hard word. Everyone may go by a softer name but the cynic. The sinister, cheerful lawbreaker who warms your entrails is an "importer." He who steals your trashy purse because you pay safely by check, is no usurer, but a respectable banker. So along the line, gentlemen all, does the world avoid rasping unpleasantness, except the cynic, whose avocation of cavity...
...less pleasant caverns of Hall there is a band of the more demoniac fallen angels preparing an appropriate punishment for a group of mortal sinners. The cohorts of Satan are underlining the vacuous and unimportant passages of a public collection of fine books, and adding in the margins a gloss of irrelevant comments to each passage. The sinners will when their time comes, be required to read the books, following the thought despite the defacement. This done, each sinner will be forced to eat the books, and the lead from the pencil marks will be rendered out of them...
...even the prospect of making 600,000 pesetas can quell the mortal dread of the sea which Escudero shares with many another gypsy (TIME, Jan. 25). For him the ocean and all water, he says, is hell. He spent his six days aboard the Aquitania this autumn lying in his cabin in a pair of red silk pyjamas, trembling lest he should die and be thrown overboard for fish to devour. Ashore he soon becomes the soul of assurance again. He wears grey flannel shirts for formal and informal occasions, usually with a tie he has crocheted himself. But last...