Word: thirst
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...play with other children; he would eat his meals. He had studied music for two years only. His mother was an actress (Claribel Fontaine), his father an actor (Herbert Farjeon) and his great-great-uncle was actor Joseph Jefferson. That might explain without undue "forcing" some of his immature thirst for Brahms, Beethoven, Tchaikovsky "and specially Mozart." Besides the "Hiawatha" setting he had written only an Indian war dance, a "Suite of Characteristics" and a "Rhapsody in Red." The latter, he said, was "after the idea of the 'Rhapsody in Blue,' but they aren't anything alike." And, "I like...
They float down the Ohio on a raft with a Captain and a Professor. They penetrate fertile Kentucky, pause in boisterous St. Louis, journey through the Southwest with grave discomfort from Indians and thirst, at last reaching Silver in San Diego, Calif. There Shiloh, who has successfully resisted five wilderness nymphs, all ravishingly endowed and more than amiable, sends David in his stead to woo the lovely object of their odyssey, himself reclining on a Pacific headland to ponder his necessity for a persistently elusive ideal...
...Water is the sole beverage which really appeases thirst...
...graduate study, I have never yet failed to find in any graduate student a similar spark of rebellion against some of this "arid scholarship". Even the "sorriest" of the lot had rather that the desert were not quite so broad, nor so dry.--Many such students die of thirst, and many turn back. But there are always some who see "the sense of going further," and who have the mental courage to go, believing that the knowledge and discipline gained are worth the while...
...Hughes is both a novelist and a scholar with a thirst for the sensational. (His sister-in-law, Mrs. Adella Prentiss Hughes is Tsarina of the Cleveland Orchestra.) Musicians know him for his able works: American Composers, Music Lovers' Cyclopedia. Rabid novel readers recall such things as: The Thirteenth Commandment, Souls for Sale. Then suddenly, last January (TIME, Jan. 25), Mr. Hughes bounded into the public eye as the interpreter of a new George Washington. Citizens were shocked by his speech before the Sons of the American Revolution in Washington, D. C. Senators flayed him. So Mr. Hughes...