Word: restless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...getting restless under the taxonomy of a monocotyledonous wage doctrine and a cryptogamic theory of interest, with involute, loculicidal, tomentous, and moniliform variants, what is the cytoplasm, centrosome, or karyokinetic process to which we may turn, and in which we may find surcease from the metaphysics of normality and controlling principles...
...This discovery does not break his resolve, and to the bitter end, through a mass of trials enough to overwhelm any but the superhuman, Suss holds to his adopted race. His predominance has become too great and in a final scene of haunting beauty he is sacrificed to the restless demand for vengeance upon the oppressors of the people...
...world occupied by T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound and Company. Now this is a perfectly legitimate undertaking, if anyone wants to read a magazine published along such lines. But Mr. Wade is hardly in a position to get annoyed when some of the rest of us grow a little restless on his own favorite diet. He has chosen to edit one kind of magazine; we have chosen to edit another. And if he finds some of his former contributors on our editorial board is he obliged, after all, to write a letter to the CRIMSON about...
While he praises the house teams, dances, plays, and committees, yet he remarks further on, "And then you notice that most of this sturm and drang is concentrated in the hands of a few restless individuals so oddly ambitious that they elect themselves to responsible offices, and so slightly occupied that they have time to fulfill the attendant chores. The rest of the student body pursues its own sweet, egocentric way hardly disturbed by the periodic abullitions of these willing horses. More, you come to realize that any three men you select at random will have more friends outside...
...Russian Jew in his struggle for power and self expression. Cursed with a driving ambition, an unlimited imagination, and a suppressed poetic fervor, Sol Ginsburg rises ruthlessly to the domination of a great business firm. This mad search for power drives Sol from his love for Sarah Glassman; his restless soul is never satisfied; his confused ideals and desires lead him on in unceasing search for anything which seems inaccessible to him. Having achieved his goal of wealth and industrial dominance, having compelled the vacuous, sensuous mistress of his former employer to marry him, he suddenly attempts to regain...