Word: toils
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...embrace the good qualities of more than one system. We are not convinced that the "old order must utterly go." Perhaps time and experience, which unmake, as they install and signalize tradition, will presently indicate that it must. But even then "Old age hath yet his honor and his toil," which in decline will be to bear up until the new order grow to take his place
...through long months, amongst many another work and pleasure, will our youth yet give themselves because this music and this singing frees they know not what quickening within them. In such devotion will a musician, a man, a leader, of Dr. Davison's temper, pursue such endless and exacting toil. Nobody calls it art, nobody names it uplift. Everybody fights shy of such shamming. Self-expression and release are the better words--with Brahms of the Requiem for channel and Dr. Davison for steersman...
...inherit family, money. Not only is the whole system of competitions highly conventional, but the competitions themselves are just as much so. A candidate does exactly what scores of candidates have done before him, for he delivers his mind, body, and soul to eight weeks or more of conventional toil. If he is possessed of any personality or will-power, it does not take him long to lose it. After he has won his coveted honor, if it be a place on the "Lampoon," for instance, he is initiated in a conventional manner in the presence of all his conventional...
Here is emptiness indeed, where the servants and the objects of their toil count for naught; or, possibly all vanished without trace simultaneously with the entrance of the Professor...
...artist and an actress her boy and girl shall be. Years of toil go into the proper nourishing of their temperaments. The boy prefers engineering; the girl, matrimony. Mother loses...