Word: tombes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...long ago I stood before the tomb of Lincoln. I sought a word from him for times of trouble and for the struggle that often almost overcomes...
...speaking of the attitude of most people toward Washington, Professor Morison quotes the epitaph on the tomb of Plato, "Here lies a man whom it is neither permissable nor proper for the irreverent or ignorant to praise;" and the portrait he draws is of a man to whom this would apply. He tells of Washington's self-discipline, of how he formulated his own philosophy, which was a sort of combination of stoicism and aristocracy, and accounts for his almost perfect balance and serenity. Professor Morison also describes how Washington learned to handle men, and treats his dignified, manly love...
...expensively wed. In their new sophistication they forget their wild Irish days. Evelyn, graduated from Oxford, gets betrothed to Lady Middleton's marmoreal daughter Sarah, but when Easter and Basil see the trim life to which he is doomed they clear for home. Puppetstown has become a moldering tomb, Aunt Dicksie a crotchety recluse. She hates to have the children spoil her frigid peace, but warms to them and to life in the end. Puppetstown resounds again with the laughing speech learned from immemorial tradition and the local Blarney Stone. In a style extraordinarily luminous and concise Author Stuart...
...course such a proposal posits that the time will be spent in definite study. The bottle-fed tours conducted by Cook, the flying trips to Europe extensively advertised among the intelligentsia which outline a day in Paris, including visits to "the Louvre, Eiffel Tower, Napoleon's Tomb, the Invalides (sic), Luxembourg Gardens, the Trocadero, the Cathedral of Notre Dame, and to Versailles" with "remaining free time to be taken up by visits to the theatre, the Opera, shopping, etc.," such trips are culturally worthless. They serve only to while away the long hours of retired nutmeg manufacturers, and provide...
Expensive was the dying request of Joseph Jacques Césaire Joffre, Marshal of France. "I do not wish," he specified, "to be buried in anything resembling a tomb...