Word: subjected
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...does not prove her case. She says with the satiric generalization which has become popular in the last decade, that the typical "college woman." If she hered; and, largely as a result of this veneer, thin but adequate, of culture; learns a few catch phrases to repeat whenever a subject is mentioned about which educated persons are supposed to be informed; and, largely as a result of this veneer comes out into the world with a certain amount of poiso. The wise woman, says Miss Warfield, is she who makes a lucky marriage and has so good a time that...
Second--That the program shall be the regular Oxford-Cambridge program of nine events, subject to the following modifications: A, that a half-mile run be substituted for putting the weight; B. that in the 120-yard hurdle race the flights of hurdles should not be fixed with regard to competitors...
...reason for terminating my subscription is rather a compliment to your effective condensation (subject to the above-mentioned difficulty which I ascribe to faults). My real reason for terminating the subscription was the temptation to read, and the tremendous tax on my otherwise fully absorbed time of yielding to this temptation...
...married and deeded the house to his wife. The public became as spiteful as a cast-off mistress. . . . The public was ready to jeer in 1900 when Admiral Dewey responded to pressure and naively announced that he was willing to run for President. Said he: "Since studying this subject, I am convinced that the office of the President is not such a very difficult one to fill. . . . Should I be chosen for this exalted position, I would execute the laws of Congress as faithfully as I have always executed the orders of my superiors. . . . I think I have said enough...
...which resemble" those outlined in fashion magazines for the socially ambitious to cut out. The narrative, as usual in Mrs. Wharton's books, is pursued with neo-Jamesian traps and snares, rather than less subtle hounds and horn. Her methods have not kept pace with her times, her subject matter, her ambition as social observer. Narration by implication, which seemed wise and successful in The House of Mirth, has, after the pioneering of Virginia Woolf and others, a feeble gait, a corseted carriage...