Word: neglected
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Goldsborough Hall, the estate of Lord Lascelles and Princess Mary. When the Queen-Empress goes there it is noticed, moreover, that Lord Lascelles is usually away. From this state of affairs springs the suspicion, now current in court circles, that Viscount Lascelles pointedly" resents the King-Emperor's neglect in not raising his rank since his marriage to Princess Mary...
Critics have nearly always prophesied speedy neglect for Richard Strauss,* now 62, and have simultaneously hailed him again and once more the foremost living composer. The subject of their judgment may be an old man, his apogee undoubtedly passed. But the creations of Richard Strauss, are never treated casually, for his work is intensely personal and his personality is provoking. Looking upon the philosophical brow, dreamy eyes, sensitive lips, effeminate chin, one marvels how this musician can grate so on the world. There is his mercenariness. Once he invited notables from all parts of Europe to a supper given after...
...farm better today than we did when I was a boy but not as much better as we ought to. ... There is one feature, however, about farm life in America which is seldom, if ever, referred to. ... I refer to the appearance of carelessness and neglect which is so common on our farms. It has always been so; it was so when I was a boy; it is so still. Sometimes I think it is even worse now than was the case 50 years ago. I refer to such things as leaving wagons and farm machinery out in the fields...
...first Faculty of the College was Nathaniel Eaton. In his person, he embodied the President, Treasurer, Secretary, Dean, Bursar, Professor, Tutor, and Steward. With all the duties attached to these offices, the Faculty might have been excused a little neglect of one or two of them. But Mr. Eaton habitually neglected them all, and tyrannised over the tender College in each and all of his capacities. It may be seen that in his various positions he had ample opportunity for tyranny of a most complex and disagreeable nature...
...speech ("marvelous", "wonderful"), calling wives "the girls' and husbands "the boys", short- lived curiosity, emotional unbalance and shallowness, limitation of social intercourse to personalities and amusements. The causes are: coddling parents ("They were allowed to meet the hazards of life") prosperity through science; mass education, to the neglect of culture. A result: "We are forever carrying our sterile minds and tired bodies to foreign lands...