Word: oneness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...died James Gibbons Huneker. Prohibition, as Editor Henry Louis Mencken not irrelevantly announces in the introduction, "was one year and twenty-one days...
...fascinating girl's honor. A fascinating girl fascinates three young men who are all agog to be fascinated. A fascinating older woman fascinates an older man and then leaves him, fascinatingly, for his good. A fascinating but somewhat irregular lady of doubtful age fascinates a young man, re-fascinates one of her old beaux, who steps in to rescue the fascinated young man?...
...learn that in his latest book he announces what would seem to be his retirement: ". . . The Way of Ecben has appeared to its writer a thesis wholly fit to commemorate my graduation from, and my eternal leave-taking of, the younger generation, alike in life and in letters." One may expect nothing, he reasons, from a man of 50. The cryptogams of The Way of Ecben tell the same old Cabell story of man's vain pursuit of gay illusions. King Alfgar dreams of a witch. He sacrifices his kingdom to wander up and down the land in search...
...One learns to talk by imitating the sound of speech. The deaf learn by imitating the sight of speech. Both deaf and blind, blue-eyed, brown-haired Helen Keller learned to talk by imitating what speech felt like, beneath her fingers. Aided by her devoted, lifelong teacher and guardian, Mrs. Macy* (nee Anne Mansfield Sullivan), the prodigious Keller has been a U. S. phenomenon since the age of seven, has won without benefit of favoritism a college degree cum laude (Radcliffe), has cinemacted, lectured, written books, corresponded in French, German and English with her international friends?the blind, deaf, sick...
...soundly for being the fervent Socialist and birth-controller she still is. He then settled an annuity on her for life and told her that all pessimists had poisoned tongues and should be sent to Siberia. "Mr. Andrew Carnegie" continues Helen Keller "was an optimist. I thought I was one dyed-in-the-wool until...