Word: travails
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...listeners- James, Sargent, Norman Douglas. Of each she makes a shrewd, if flattering, portrait. Of Henry James she threatens to write a book, contents herself instead with a few pages; ''With a labouring that began stirring in the soles of his feet and worked up with Gargantuan travail through his knees and weighty abdomen to his heaving breast and strangled column of a throat. . . he spoke." The day she met him she was wearing a hat with a cluster of small white lovebirds in front. "He gasped with horror, pointed his finger, and said with utter kindness...
...trying to catch the moon, while it glimmers in the dark ice just ahead. Nature does not need to temper her wind to the shorn lamb, not to those whose shearing is close at hand. For the rugged body is almost as necessary as the stocked brain in approaching travail...
...language by extra-classroom methods or enrolling in that course which of all courses hold least attraction for the average man, interested in English literature though he may be--Beginning Anglo-Saxon. The result is that often even an illusory hope of a Summa is crushed in its natal travail: a half year spent in the acquisition of a tongue which may be an asset to some but is certainly not an intellectual necessity for all, is frequently considered so valuable that it cannot be sacrificed, even though the ultimate goal be Honors...
...mundane areas of the Smith Quadrangle and the Standish back yard into an extra Venice Lido, is symbolic of something in fact anything. It is the end of the beginning or the beginning of the end: it is the pleasant death agony of the Freshman year and the natal travail of the Sophomore: it is a pre-examination respite and an opportunity for examination of feminine prerequisites; it is--it is the time of kingdom coming and the year of Jubilee...
...Circus Princess. Invariably, inevitably, Shubert operettas record the travail of royalty romancing incognito, the while platoons of chorus girls in superlatively gorgeous colors stamp across brilliant backgrounds. The Circus Princess is "the most pretentious operetta ever presented by the Messrs. Shubert." What happens...