Word: nobler
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...there is a movement among students and women that is against national defense. If there are any two elements that give me no fear it is the women and young men. We can't keep the young men from responding to a call for war. In a far nobler and higher degree is this true of women. In all times of trial women lead . . . inspiring and supporting beyond the power...
...Ever since it has seemed as if America had lost its soul. There are voices heard in every direction, nothing clear and nothing definite; no leadership, no guidance, no appeal to our nobler selves. We lost the War and we are drunk by a prosperity which has made us so indifferent that, the gates being left unguarded, the domestic enemy has entered and taken every salient and every trench. What has the country gained at home?. . . The crassest of materialism reigns in Washington by grace of Woodrow Wilson's plunge into the War, and where materialism is there sits...
...reader all the dynamiting and slaughter at the expense of paring down the Arabian milieu. This was a doubtful course?like abridging the Iliad into a penny dreadful about a wooden horse. Fortunately, Mr. Lawrence has done his own abridging and retained more than a modicum in the original nobler and broader strain. The book is simply what its author pleases the public shall read; and such is the nature of vox populi that hosannas are being sung...
...probity of open-space fiction today is truly magnificent. Author Kyne clearly states that this book's supply of moonshine, necessary for comic relief and to resuscitate the nobler characters after arduous adventures in the forest primeval, was laid down before Prohibition. Proud, independent and flirtatious though she is, Heroine Monica Dale, wilderness virgin, is made to explain in pretty confusion that the hero, after helping her to her lonely mountain-top cabin in a deluge, must go out and sleep in the barn. Otherwise she would be?er ?compromised...
...only man who would tamper not only with Nature, but with that vaster, more mysterious force which superstition, tradition or conscience terms the Deity-at least according to the reasoning-and faith-of the majority of people this is true-those who believe that Man sprung from a nobler source than the jungle [sic]. It was Marie Corelli, was it not, or was it Mrs. Eddy, or another watchful observer of the times, who first suspected that man was weary of walking upright and looking at the stars ; and judging from the doings of experimenting scientists, this weariness is leading...