Word: tinned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Andreyev--"Humbly bowing before the immutable law of action, the contemporary drama declines to represent--indeed, cannot represent for us--a Nietzsche, who is so near, so important so essential to our lives, but continues to offer us in profusion empty, antiquated, and unnecessary Cellinis, with their paraphernalia of tin swords, etc." Modern life, Andsoyer continues has withdrawn into the inner recesses of the soul, whereas the theatre has paused at the threshold of these new and profound psychological experiences and intellectual strivings--the struggle of man's thoughts with man--and has never thrown open the door that leads...
...work, he is beginning to realize that his assistant, like the cow in the famous story, "looks like a man, acts like a man, and in fact is a man". When a person is made to don a uniform and conceal his ego behind figures printed on a tin disc, he cannot help but lose some of his self-respect, and feel, naturally enough, that he is being put in the same class as a convict, or a Ford. In restoring to him his name and his peace of mind, the employer is not doing him a great favor...
...that the geologist assigned greater antiquity to the earth and sun than the caloric energy of the two would allow. But not that it is known that sun than the caloric energy of the two would allow. But now that it is known that such tremendous power is latent tin these toast, geologists and physicists can celebrate with unanimity the 1600 millionth anniversary of the world's birthday and toast enthusiastically "ten billion more...
...things for public show. So we take this second volume and read it in silence, away from the rattle-and-bang of everyday. Perhaps we pause in reading and our eyes are misty for a moment as we see dusty roads with cheery grinning boys' faces under their "tin-derbies", faces of boys marching, or we see sprawled figures by a wayside ditch, or stunted twisted forms on stretchers, awful, hidden under their khaki blankets, and we think of a greeting in a voice we have not heard for three long dulling years. We do not cry the praises...
With the "revival of learning" again comes a revival of interest in shot guns, rifles, revolvers, automatics, alarm clocks, tin horns, and noise makers of every variety, including the ancient Chaldean instrument, the vox humana, to disturb the night air at about...