Word: storm
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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deeply concern us, and control of the future, and yet that it cannot even give us the fool's paradise it promised us; at such a moment it needs some moderation not to be attacking Philistinism by storm, but to mine it through such gradual means as the slow approaches of culture. But the hard unintelligence, which is just now our bane, cannot be conquered by storm, it must be supplied and reduced by culture, by a growth in the variety, fullness, and sweetness of our spiritual life; and this end can only be reached by studying things that...
...tastes which it details, is yet to be considered one of his best three books. A man who can draw such characters as we find in "A Modern Instance" and make them live and move in the sordid environment of a third rate journalism certainly did not merit the storm of abuse which greeted his masterpiece. It is to such works as this that future generations will turn to obtain a true picture of the commonplace American business...
...spite of the severity of the storm last evening, Sever 11 was filled when Mr. Copeland began his lecture on "The Drama of Yesterday," and, as he added, "The Day Before...
...account of the storm yesterday the Harvard - Yale base ball game which was to have been played at 3 o'clock was postponed until Saturday afternoon at 2.30. Although it had rained during all the morning, the managers of the teams in their conference at the Vendome failed to come to a decision about postponement. The Yale manager hoped it might be possible to play the game after all, and decided that Yale's answer would not be given until the team reached Cambridge. About two o'clock the men arrived ready to play but it was raining so hard...
...students of the University of Jena were present in full force. Ignoring royalty. they burst into boisterous and continued applause; but, as the opera was long and they had to get back to the university they left before the end. As soon as the students had disappeared a perfect storm of hisses burst fourth. Liszt's blood was up; and, flinging down his music book lie turned around, faced the audience with defiance and, raising his long bony arms, covered with white gloves, he began to clap with all his might. The hisses were redoubled, the lights turned...