Word: shaded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Poems. Narratives inform the body of Robinson Jeffers' verse. Tamar, of which the above are the opening lines, unrolls a tragedy of incest, Hebraic in origin (II Samuel xiii), Greek in treatment. Tamar Cauldwell, slender virgin in a rotting house, makes her brother her lover, takes another lover to shade the fruit of her sin. The ghost of old Caukler's incestuous sister?returning through the trances of a fat psychic aunt, Stella, and the gibbering of an idiot aunt, "poor Jinny" ?torments Tamar, tells her a curse is in her blood, inescapable, unclean. Tamar, fearless and fire-souled...
Ferdinand Foch, like his soldier colleagues Marshal Joffre and General Castelnau, is from the Midi (South--not to be confused with the feminine midinette). It was at Tarbes in Gascony, under the shade of the Pyrenees, at 10 o'clock on the night of Oct. 2, 1851, that the future generalissimo of the Entente Armies was born. It was two months before Prince Louis Napoleon made his famed coup d'etat...
...other considerations put together. And if he cannot detect in himself a real desire to concentrate anywhere, then let him searchingly examine his heart and see if toward some one of our many departments he cannot persuade himself to feel a dislike which, if only by the merest shade, is less than the dislike that he feels toward all the others
...fast life" that he deplores. His statement to the effect that "our fathers" were of a more virile stamp is one which modern insurance statistics can easily disprove. And in view of the remarkable extension of intra and extra-mural college athletics one may read his statement with a shade of skepticism. The youth of today does indeed lead a "faster" life than did the older generation: but constant participation in healthful exercises has made this physically possible...
When patches were in style one had only to look at an English lady's face to determine her politics. Today in France a glance at a man's collar will tell you whether he is an old school royalist, and if his socks are of the wrong shade they betray a dangerous radical. Ever meticulous in matters of dress Paris was astounded when M. Painleve, President of this enchanter of Deputies, appeared at his own reception wearing a turned down collar and a disarranged tie. And when the Under Secretary of State for Aviation opened his coat and exhibited...