Word: puzzlements
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...antique god whose scepter is a hammer, is left alone with the new generation. One day through the fog of years he sees a half-naked savage standing respectfully before him. "Are you happy?" he quavers. "Things are as they are," the savage replies in puzzlement, "and I am part of them." The Last American passes his scepter to the savage, and dies, murmuring with the grasses and the winds and with Ecclesiastes: "Men go and come, but earth abides...
...puzzlement of parents, many a daughter comes home bubbling about the terrific nocaut at the fights or the jonrons which piled up the escor at the beisbol game. But if her deit was real quiut, she might say very little about how they spent the evening-parqueando...
...slide color of a Feuchtwanger or the ingenious imagination of a Robert Graves. The miracles he describes sparingly, without dramatizing and without comment; they are made to seem unsettling and disturbing events. It is not the joy of His love that the book stresses, but the disquiet and the puzzlement that word of His teachings brought to people who heard them from afar...
...monastery in the world.' . . . No [European] woman has ever been within 60 miles, except the six ENSA [British USO] girls, who arrived for one night in June 1944, and left their high-heeled footprints in the soft cement outside the Brigade Headquarters mess. This monument remains, to the puzzlement of the tribesmen...
...never been aired enough, though Spanish historians like Salvador de Madariaga have insisted on its importance. One of the few books to put light on the background is this long autobiography by an exiled Spaniard. It is valuable because it reflects in great detail the peculiar corruption and puzzlement of Spanish life between the Cuban (Spanish-American) and the Civil Wars...