Word: succumbs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...audience. His was the first-and persists the truest-note of realism that the U. S. has heard. "Dullness," he said, "is dear to me." Beside realism as we have it today, that of Howells pales, of course, is called drabness; but at the time, his refusal to succumb to the chivalrous romanticism his contemporaries had inherited from England made him, roughly, the Sinclair Lewis...
...honor last week to announce the marriage of his Hearst's International and his Cosmopolitan magazines. Consummation of the union was set for early in the new year. The International, a feminist bride, will insist for a time on International-Cosmopolitan as the family name, but will later succumb to custom and be of one name as well as one flesh with the Cosmopolitan...
...from Cherbourg. The timorous passengers smiled and rolled across the solid earth upon their sea legs. The timid questioned whether ever again they would go to sea, questioned whether the sea were conquerable, asked in their hearts whether some day or other some such man-made Leviathan might not succumb to the demons of the ancient deep. Indeed, it would be a serious question for the Shipping Board, or any other shipping agency, if one of its great ships should ever sink before the onslaught of the storm...
...ever make their way back to civilization after living under such horrible conditions. Even if a few do not succumb before the end of their term to the many tropical fevers that infest the colony, when released, they are obliged to pass under parole a corresponding number of years. Thus, in whatever way, the primary object of the colony is accomplished: that no convict should come back alive to tell the tale...
...conservatism recently manifested both in England and the United States. Its political display is regarded as a mere sign Behind the political movement is seen an almost universal revulsion away from liberal tendencies. Intellectual freedom is endangered. It is feared that thought and the arts will succumb to the dulling influence of bourgeois ideals. Once more Babbitt goes about his daily lasks in great glee. He rubs his hands and beams genially Popular approval has placed its divine sanction upon the trinity of his creed Efficiency, and And having the conscionsness of the crowd at his back, he redevotes himself...