Word: real
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...point of his career. Contact with the rough, hearty mountaineers and frontiersmen brought to him for almost the first time a realization of other men and other lives, and with this experience the self centred traits of his nature began to disappear. From this time must be dated the real beginning of his literary career. The old sensitiveness to emotion and idealism, the delicate fancy and imagination still remained, and to these he has added something of the sympathy with mankind and human nature by which alone he might interpret the emotions and characters...
...property referred to in the will consists principally of two parcels of real estate,--the net value of which would amount to about $50,000. The money is to be left in trust with the city officials of Cambridge. If they are unwilling to accept the offer, it will be made to the President and Fellows of Harvard. In case they too refuse to serve, the trust is to be administered by the Probate Court...
...still he was merely a writer with no definite purpose, and from among the various branches of literature had not finally chosen the kind of writing which he was to make peculiarly his own. Truth in writing, that power that scorns the sham and pictures the real, Thackeray had, and a fund of brilliant humor also. He had lacked the personal and distinctive individuality that was needed to make him prominent and now for the first time, by a serious realization of his own powers, he was to achieve this...
...past week may be said to mark the real beginning of the concert season with the Musical Clubs. The new material developed at the trials has been worked over, and the make-up of the three clubs is now practically final for the present half-year...
Meanwhile Geralde has use up all his money, and writes to his father for more, pretending to be hard at work in Bourges. Through the clumsiness of Crispin, by whom the letter was to be delivered, Lisidor's suspicions are aroused; for Crispin lost the real letter and, being afraid of his master, prepared a poor imitation of it, giving some lame excuses for strange lapses in his recollections of Bourges...