Word: pursuit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Greece. But his brief and comfortable enchantment was shattered by the arrival of Clara Hunting's sons, together with Mr. Hodge, their tutor. He, a teacher of mathematics, resented the untidy brilliance of Mr. Hazard; his resentment was effective. Mr. Hazard felt himself compelled to resume elsewhere his pursuit of peace, a pursuit always profitless in this dusty world for one like Mr. Hazard, who, fierce, bewildered, and alone, was not entirely its inhabitant...
Gilbert is a hearty advocate of the efforts by Americans to attain a style distinct from those of European composers. In pursuit of this aim Mr. Gilbert has written much music based upon negro or Indian themes. His "Comedy Overture" has been played all over this country, in Europe, and even in Russia. His "Indian Sketches" have also been performed by leading American orchestras...
...feeling is that one must have "made" some team or competition. As a result, the ambitious tend to dissipate their energies in activities of little lasting value in order to acquire temporary recognition. Outside the circle of "big men" are those of quiet worth who have time for the pursuit of cultural interests, and leisure for the friendships and purposeless occupations that characterized college life before it become a business. Another indirect result of the size, then, is the placing of false emphasis on extra-curricular activities in order to obtain social honors. By the present system, the successful become...
...golddiggers' who break into the news are not 'former members of the Follies'; a man with a couple of hundred dollars on his person is not necessarily 'reputed to be wealthy'; . . . an automobile used either in the perpetration of a crime or in the pursuit of the criminal is not always a 'high-powered...
...accepting the result of a deliberate experiment. At the time I allowed my former subscription to lapse I had become a commuter with the inevitable necessity of spending forty-five minutes in the morning and evening reading the newspaper. I thought, and not unreasonably, that by this constant pursuit of the daily news, incident by incident, I would be able to dispense with the summary of news which TIME so capably provides...