Word: threads
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...whose fervent patriotism is above question are rallying around the president of the National Security League, who has taken the leadership to expel Countess Catherine Karolyi of Hungary, one time associate of Bela Kun. None know so well as these arch-guardians of national safety by what a slim thread it hangs in these times of deceptive calm. One puff from an inflamed Bolshevik and the whole political and social structure will come tumbling about the ears of hapless multitudes in this peaceful and contented land. A stitch in time will save, not nine, but a hundred million souls from...
...stage. Much to the distress of his admirers, he has attempted to embody the rules and measure of his wisdom in the heart and beauty of a play. Mr. Young has built up the fabric of a well-made drama; he has strengthened it with a fancy thread of beauty; and he has wholly failed to fill it with the air of sound reality...
...over all the world" until he died; but he never found the jewels of which, sleeping and waking, he dreamt; while the man to whom he had sold his mansion found diamonds in the stream that watered the garden, thus discovering the famed mines of the Golconda. Taking the thread of this tale, Dr. Conwell elaborated it with over 30 minor anecdotes. He quoted Bailey, the Bible, Garfield, Grant, Robert E. Lee, Rockefeller, Tennyson. In his delivery, he incorporated every known artifice of the pulpit, the stump and the vaudeville stage. He larded his sentences with such aphorisms...
...makes the blanket charge that the control exercised on our educational institutions by "big business" is always pernicious. But he proclaims a truth when he contends that such control leaves a Damoclean sword forever over the head of liberalism in our colleges. The financier-educators may cut the thread at any moment...
...stranger to gaiety, he had fallen in love with Lavinia and she with him. The night before, he had challenged Gawin Todd to a duel for her hand; now he stood and watched her com ing down the stairs. He saw her silhouette above the banister, heard the thread of her frail singing and her cry, as she caught her heel in the carpet, slipped and fell down, down the great stairway-the thud as her head struck the oak floor. In the years that followed, he iso lated himself from men and affairs, rode about his plantation, distracted...