Word: persisting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This is its "irony" This is the academic forest primeval, the murmuring pines and the hemolcks and the Seniors. Biologically, spiritually and humanly, it amounts to another prolonged dose of suicide. The myth of a liberal college is still supposed to persist despite this fact. Most of us shall leave Cambridge, sheepskin, honors, keys at also, we shall carry with us a smile for these hypocritic days: also a pretty little chip on our shoulders. If this be error and upon me proved . . . Irwin Rosen...
With the knowledge you have, how can you with any safe conscience put India in the British Commonwealth of Nations, when it is a fact that India is a harlot of the British Empire? I am certain that you will persist in calling the British Empire by the rosy name of "Commonwealth of Nations" and so oh and put India in it as one of the commonwealths. Well, I cannot prevent you from doing it, but I owe it to my conscience to protest against the prostitution of this word...
...futile and cruel but a sense of justice and tolerance toward races and nations not their own, which will deepen their love of humanity to the point where they will be willing to make sacrifices for the common good? In this method I feel we must persist, even after we have joined the World Court and the league and codified the laws. Isn't it our only way of making them permanent...
...circumstances that just escape being obvious. From the viewpoint of technique the story gets worse and worse. A red-hot flatiron sets fire to the house at midnight, and, as if this were not ridiculous enough, the young lovers, saying protracted good-byes in the lady's bedroom, persist in arguing as the flames sweep around them. There is the usual insipid ending-divorce and the marriage of the perfectly mated...
...novel, which is about a certain auburn-haired Connemara, was begun by Carolyn Wells, continued by Alexander Woollcott, carried on by Louis Bromfield, sustained by Elsie Janis. On Jan. 17, Ed Streeter was scheduled to prolong it, Meade Minnigerode to extend it, Dorothy Parker to persist to the end of her chapter. Eventually the following will all have had a turn: Harry C. Witwer, Sophie Kerr, Robert G. Anderson, Kermit Roosevelt, Bernice Brown, Wallace Irwin, Frank Craven, George B. McCutcheon, Rube Goldberg, George A. Chamberlain, John V. A. Weaver, Gerald Mygatt, George P. Putnam...