Word: mortality
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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OUTWARD BOUND?A telling and unforgettable voyage to the hereafter, in which not even Death can quite make people shuffle off this mortal coil...
...often at one. He ends his summary of Gandhi's influence with these prophetic words: "One thing is certain, either Gandhi's spirit will triumph, or it will manifest itself again as were manifested, centuries before, the Messiah and Buddha; till there finally in manifested, in a mortal half-god, the perfect incarnation of principle of life which will lead a new humanity on to a new path...
...contracts of the literary artist with life are conspicuously Alpine. He looks upon the mortal world from a great height, but tolerantly. His vision is embracing, a little supercilious, but not antagonistic. At times, permitting himself a specialization of curiosity, he draws his trusty telescope and applies its concentrated vision to a limited section of the horizon. An Arnold Bennett may contrive to narrow the scope of his mundane investigation to the intensive inspection of one unsavory Soho basement. Joseph Conrad, his seaman's vision scorning the intervention of the spyglass, embraces the entire Mediterranean in a searching survey. Frank...
...This mortal deadlock continued when the Senate adjourned for the holidays- three weeks in session and almost nothing done. The Democrats took opportunity to play the Republicans for inaction. Senator Reed of Missouri (Democrat) called the deadlock "perfectly childish" because the Chairman of the Interstate Commerce Committee was "inconsequential." Senator Wheeler of Montana, a Democrat, but heartily in accord with the Republican insurgents, took issue with the Senator from Missouri, declaring that the Chairmanship was vitally important...
Battistini, said to be the only surviving exponent of the purest bel canto, has never let the American dollar lure him across the Atlantic. The reason is that he has a mortal fear of seasickness...