Word: mortally
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Neither Mr. Powys nor his "Fables" are for the poor mortal who likes a good story, but who can not abide "literature." Like a medium, this clever writer makes such homely objects as a bucket and a rope scamper and talk worldly wisdom in a naive accent. And if you would find the love affairs of "The Seaweed and the Cuckoo-Clock" amusing and enlightening you will proclaim "Fables" an important piece of workmanship. There is no doubt that this little book is very much the thing for the right people...
...student of humanities . . . connoisseur of the arts and sciences, philosopher, dramatist and poet." A worldly man, with few illusions, Casanova had some profound convictions. "It was one of his staunchest beliefs, one that he retained to his dying day, that lack of sexual expression is followed by a mortal illness." Though his memoirs are never wholly to be believed, the two adventures of which he was proudest (the escape from the Leads and the duel with Branicki) seem to have been authentic. Author S. Guy Endore bases his account of Casanova on the Memoirs, then takes the wind...
Wrathfully he informed M. Clémentel that the Radical Socialists would not support him, although they are his closest political kin. "What a thrust!" wrote one French correspondent. "A mortal thrust through the vitals of Clémentel. A spiteful thrust at Briand...
...circular, and the CRIMSON; says "About twenty minutes later the Sergeant came up from the station and hauled in both Cohen and his batch of papers." Why? Why because during that twenty minutes the policeman had succeeded in reading the circular--which takes two minutes for the ordinary mortal--and had also discovered behind those high-minded platitudes an idea, a political idea. The rest follows automatically...
...Maternal Mortality. Their greatest concern was the fact that the U. S., whose women pay the highest medical fees in the world and therefore presumably get the best care, has the highest maternal mortality rate among civilized nations. For every 2,000 children born alive in the U. S. 13 mothers die. The rate per thousand is in England & Wales 3.8; Scotland 5.8; Germany 5.3; Italy 2.7; Scandinavian countries 2.6; Holland 2.3 (the lowest). Of U. S. maternal deaths, 65% are due to blood-poisoning contracted at the time of delivery or immediately after. Other mortal causes include lack...