Word: transients
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Filling the stage with the Day family, unctuous rectors, unwelcome relatives, tearful and transient servant girls, and forwarding the story with a protracted conspiracy to get Father baptized, Life with Father bowls pleasantly along. The first two acts are rather upsy-downsy, with some of the humor forced and thin, but the last act turns hilarious, with Father finally departing for the font in a shower of laughter...
Modern readers gauge Thoreau's genius by the qualities his contemporaries disliked. His eccentricities, prickliness, perversities, were in fact the Yankee thorns that protected him against the embrace of the Transcendentalists, the fashionable gentilities of the Lowells and Longfellows, the transient Utopianisms of the Alcotts, the dated rhetoric of his contemporaries. What moderns can see, what his contemporaries missed, is that Thoreau meant what he said. He was, he declared, a "Realometer," working his feet "downward through the mud and slush of opinion, and prejudice and tradition, and delusion, and appearance ... to a hard bottom...
...knows the cause of facial neuralgia, but to relieve pain physicians some times inject alcohol into the tough, sinuous trigeminal (facial) nerve or sever its root. Neither of these treatments is satisfactory, however, for alcohol injections may give only transient relief, and a severed nerve may impart a slack, dead expression to one side of the face...
Truces between the New Deal and the public utility industry have been about as frequent and as transient as European war scares. But last week came a truce which really seemed to amount to something. Columnist Arthur Krock enthused...
...Jersey's former Governor Harold Giles Hoffman, who last year dropped a slander suit against onetime Radio Commentator Boake Carter, began a 52-week series of news broadcasts himself. Excerpt from his first broadcast: "Happiness and heartbreak, achievement and failure . . . are wrapped up in that thing, chiefly transient, which we call news...