Word: senseless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...complicated by nothing more serious than the easily outwitted jealousy of a native chief and by the natives' insistence that he take a beautiful 14-year-old girl as his mistress to prepare her, according to strict native custom, for her husband. Gonzalo balked for moral reasons (senseless abstractions to the tribesmen) and because he really wanted to marry her. In time, having won enough prestige to make his own law. he settled down happily with his "tawny Venus'' and raised a family. Nearly eight years later, when a Spanish vessel appeared, he engineered a trap...
...cute" would be fatal to a serious word and "jimple" is simply senseless...
Desperately homesick, sick of the senseless killing and intrigues, George and Alfred concluded bitterly that "things Americans believed in didn't seem to mean anything in this foreign country." Anti-U. S. feeling, open attacks on U. S. troops reached a peak with the refusal of General Graves to deliver a shipment of guns when he discovered a plot to use them against his own men. But what hurt most was to read in the screaming newspapers from home that all of them, including General Graves, were Bolsheviks to a man. On a railway platform Alfred...
...years they led a lonely, hand-to-mouth life, supporting themselves by translations, lectures, literary work, trying to patch together a working revolutionary organization. Once, in a letter to his mother, Lenin allowed his discouragement to appear: "My life goes on as usual and fairly lonely . . . and unfortunately pretty senseless...
...title might suggest, Zona Gale's latest novel "Light Woman" provides highly entertaining reading characterized by a note of levity. Although in size the book may only be called a novelette, in substance it is much more than this. Behind many of the seemingly senseless words of Mitty, the central character, lurks a meaning all too true to be dismissed as the talk of a "light woman." She embodies in her philosophy of life much that every modern person has left. Her overpowering self-interest is freely admitted, and despite all opposition to such a characteristic, we somehow excuse...