Word: quenching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...whole, has been handled rather shabbily by the dramatists. When the eldest generation is not putting obstacles in the way of young love, it is usually portrayed as composed of cynical and dyspeptic individuals ever on the alert to quench the enthusiastic fervor of youth. If an occasional sympathetic portrayal is presented, as in "Old English" the hero is made out to be scapegrace of one sort or another whom one loves partly in spite of and partly because of his faults. Serafin and Joaquin Quintero, the leading present-day Spanish play-wrights, have made a real addition...
...Solomon's Song of Songs was deleted in entirety. (It contains the line Many waters cannot quench love-see Theatre p.40). Concerning this deletion there is little debate...
...registry office with two charwomen as witnesses. Years later their only daughter gives herself to a married man who lives in the flat below and dies in childbirth. Barcaldine faces a bankruptcy court. But always there are subtle filaments which bind man and wife -"Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown...
...prove to be the acme of British commonsense. The situation in Palestine had become quiet last week, with 5,000 British troops policing the land, disarming both, Jews and Arabs, recovering loot seized in the riots, massacres and town-burnings of last fortnight. Quite possible the best way to quench the strife of Islam v. Israel was to make both factions feel that further slaughter would be common murder, not glorious and justifiable vengeance taken upon a rival race and creed...
...placid and usually reclining cows of Holland seem like living symbols of Peace. They gave of their milk, last week, to refresh and quench the thirst of some 500 non-tippling adolescents, who assembled at Eerde, in the Netherlands, for the first World Youth Peace Congress...