Word: sayed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Senate's Sense. It had no legal value. Its moral value was washed out by partisan undercurrents. Its application was so indefinite that Senator Reed of Pennsylvania was moved to say: "You might as well pass a resolution in favor of the Ten Commandments." But the Senate, after three days of wrangling, twitting, theorizing and horseplaying, passed it anyway, 56 to 26-a resolution by boyish Senator LaFollette "that it is the sense of the Senate that the precedent established by Washington and other Presidents of the United States in retiring from the Presidential office after their second term...
...article-writing kind of explorer, of whom I am happy to say I am not one, has been responsible for the prevalent illusion that one who has climbed lesser peaks can realize what we faced in the conquest of Mt. Child Memorial. This is false. Those who have climbed the lesser peaks like the Farnsworth, or the loftier General Reading Room, can realize only in a degree the perils of the dash to the Child Memorial top that our party attempted last January...
...say "attempted" because somewhere up there, at the Top of the Widener, swept by the mighty corridor drafts that are forever playing about the summit, stained by the thousand changes of weather and the weekly change of floor-mops, lie the bones of two gallant gentlemen, my friends, two of the bravest explorers that ever cheated a native...
Fritz, dear old Fritz McCarthy, to whom I would soon say goodbye forever, had one of his thoughts. "Wait a year," he said with the roguish twinkle that gained him the reputation of "funster" around camp. He strapped on his climbing shoes with the heavy iron spikes, and disappeared across the plateau and into the Reading Room. A minute later he came in sight. He had two natives under each arm, whose whole lives, as he told us, had been spent in the vicinity of the peak. Had they ever been to the top? Answering with fluent hands in sign...
...sensitive feelings of the artist are often given a cruel blow by the jibes of an unsympathetic critic. Having delivered himself upon the high altar of his art, to say nothing of the lucrative desk of defiled Mammon, the minor playright shudders at the crudity of those to whom it is not given to understand the scope of greatness. That criticism has constructive as well as destructive powers is forgotten by the mangled remains of budding genius forgotten also that there are standards which must be realized, a public that must be informed and protected...