Word: storming
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...McCarthy '02, "The Storm" (David Copperfield) Dickens...
...McCarthy '02, "The Storm, David Copperfield," Charles Dickens...
...handled in such a way that the reader's interest is held throughout. The writer displays a strong love for nature and gives several bits of exceedingly good description. One of the shorter stories, by the same author, entitled, "His Heart," gives a thrilling picture of a storm on a rocky coast, but there is very little plot and the ending is decidedly weak...
...Simon Peter:" -- About these two words are twined the suggestive memories of a wonderful life, a life full of stress and storm and change but firm and victorious in the end. There comes before one the picture of Simon, the Galilean fisherman, fickle and untrue, known among the sailors of the lake as a man in whom no sure confidence could be placed. Again there rises before one the scene on that day when Christ first met the humble fisherman and gave to the weak Simon the name of Peter,--that is to say at last the old fickleness...
...rough colloquial style in which it is written. In "Charles Lamb as a Critic," W. Morrow '00, attempts to show Lamb's comparative powers of criticism in different works and subjects. "Before the Wind," a sketch by R. C. Bolling '00, is a vividly drawn picture of a storm...