Word: swayings
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...terms of population by new discoveries, as heat raises the saturation point of water in terms of various salts. But since we can neither enlarge our universe nor emigrate from it, we can never abrogate the law of population by such means, if prolific Nature is allowed full sway. We are trapped by our reproductive efficiency, and can escape only by reducing it or by living lives that are short and by no means merry...
...Some say that romance is a thing of the past, but the truth is that as long as there are men and women in the world there will be romance. ... In these days of commonplace materialism we need only go to the movies to find it in full sway on the screen and in the audience...
Regretting the passing of the time when "the classic shades of Harvard held peaceful sway from their throne of elms to the hills beyond the meadows", and when "offenders against the peace feared rather a dignified reproof in the shape of a few lines of good old Anacreon, than the rubicund justice of a Portchuck leak", the writer goes on to decry the present situation...
...perhaps they will not. At best it's a fifty fifty chance, which is not a very satisfactory state of affairs. They have been very foolish. Only a peek at the histories of Rome, France, or Bagdad would have shown that their method is not the way to sway Empires. A whisper in the right ear at the right time has always been much more effective than mountains of resolutions and cohorts of deputations. Publicity where an appointment is concerned is nearly always fatal. The ladies who want things done at Geneva ought to be reminded that a woman...
...street car, nuzzling into his current magazines sees photographs of Bernarr Macfadden, her physical pastor, wearing only a skimpy breechclout, his chest hairless. He is illustrating "How I keep fit at Fifty-Eight." Yet pictures of girls predominate in the periodicals. A favorite female pose is the sway-back with the mons veneris thrown forward. An advertisement by the Ancient and Mystical Order Rosae Crucis (Rosy Cross, Rosicrucians) dis- plays the ansate cross, phallic symbol. Yet the publisher pretends to give highly moral instruction, whereas in reality he salaciously veils salacities. He makes no appeal to the intellect, little...