Word: prating
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ancient, shady ancestry is the Devil. As Egypt's Serpent Apap, he crawled at dark by the Nile while flames shuddered in his thin trail. In Babylonia, even fools dared not prate of him when he was known as "the lady Nina." His was the god-defiance of Prometheus, the malice of Ahriman. Still as Siva he destroys...
...practical effect, if not the technical process, of denying Negroes a share in the government is, of course, a violation of the 14th and 18th Amendments to the U. S. Constitution. It has become trite to point out the inconsistency of such nullification by citizens who prate about the sanctity of the 18th Amendment. Last week's dark plaintiffs in Texas will not have time before November to carry their cases to the U. S. Supreme Court. But predictions were made that when the appeals are heard, the South's constitutional dilemma will grow more acute than...
...stuff of romance is here, but not in its best manner. Messers. Bishop and Brodeur have a brave story to tell; it is a pity they have not told it more skillfully. They have chosen to adopt a pseudo-heroic style. Their characters prate mightily of great deeds for mother Britain, messenger after messenger after messenger after messenger after messenger falls swooning at the king's feet, rude soldiers in battle and Roman citizens on the streets blurt out heroic speeches tuned to the rhythm of a Cicero. It is all very exciting, but seldom convincing. One suspects that...
...engineering school. He is inclined to look upon the study of mathematics, physics, or chemistry as something abstract, a kind of preliminary warming up for the real job which is to come later in the professional school. And this conception is not infrequently due to his elders who prate about "pure" science and "applied" science. It seems to him a far cry from the simple steam-engine and the dynamo of his first course in physics, to a fifty thousand kilowatt turbo-generator. Although some of his courses may be labelled "physics" and others "engineering", they are all parts...
...many of those sophisticates who prate about the perfect strength and grace of the Periclean Greeks have ever seen the Roth Brothers in their marvelous acrobatics, or the Aristpphanic clownings of those amusing tumblers, Fortunello and Cirillino? Or Bird Millman, the circus star who does incredible things? How many intellectuals who lament the passing of the pungent Yankee wit have thought of Will Rogers of the Follies as anything but a mountebank? Or Savoy and Brennan as aught but purveyors of laughter to the Babbittry...