Word: profound
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mind, King George last week was nobly troubled, and so were the best of His Majesty's subjects. No English gentleman who has been taught with the rough end of a strap to write Latin verse at Eton ever thinks of Eternal Rome with other than profound cultural respect, and Pope Pius XI was probably right in thinking last week that the last place on which British bombs will ever fall is the City of the Caesars. All the same, Kaiser Wilhelm II became a "beastly Hun" for some years to his cousin George V, and Benito Mussolini...
...Rawlings' second novel deals with the same region, but pictures along with the natives a queer group, composed of an English remittance man, a doctor and his son, a female orange grower, evidently intended to typify unhealthy sophistication. As in South Moon Under, the drawling natives, with their profound knowledge of the secret ways of the country, and their strange talk, filled with phrases like "right smart" and "hit's a pity," carry conviction. But Mrs. Rawlings' educated folk are so plainly artificial figures that the story is often swamped in their moody philosophic talk and incomprehensible...
...Among the noble qualities of the Soviet citizen is class hatred," cried Komsomolskaya Pravda. "It is a sage and profound feeling of organic hatred toward the enemy-toward all the filthy, abominable remnants of the old world, its wolfish laws and fetid life. . . . Irreconcilable, inflexible, untamable hate should be nourished by every worker, by every collective farm worker, by every soldier and office employe, by every teacher and artist, because this hate is a great, heroic, sacred hate which belongs to the proletariat...
Frederick C. Packard, Jr. '20, assistant professor of Public Speaking, and Bernard A. DeVote '20, lecturer on English, expressed a high opinion of the performance, the latter characterizing it as a "profound emotional experience...
Despite the staggering declines in Van Sweringen securities, the two bachelors of railroading have kept their old friends. Names of the "associates" who will furnish them funds remained a profound secret but one thing was certain: J. P. Morgan is not financing the Van Sweringen comeback...