Word: ultima
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...change his plans. He was confident that he would be out of it safely in a short time, and in a shorter time than anyone dared hope the car was bringing him back again through the park, stopping at the door of the house he has made his ultima thule. There had been no fever, no aftermath. At the Chalet de Riond Bossons Madame Paderewski continued her interest in the red and whites and her husband when he felt strong enough walked gingerly down the path to watch them working on the greenhouse. His sailing, booked...
...ULTIMA THULE-Henry Handel Richardson-Norton...
From the heroically borne ordeals of Job to the wretched suicide of Anna Karenina, the great stories of the race have been compounded of suffering. Anguish is constant in Ultima Thule, which is already being called great. Though modern critics are hasty with their wreaths, this story of impoverished Dr. Richard Mahony, 49, who began anew in Australia, is indubitably a deep-dug, searing novel. Huddling his wife and three lateborn children within bleak walls, the Doctor felt too poor to entertain. He thus lost contacts, clientele. Then he removed to another town, where one of his daughters died...
...published in 1908 a musical novel called Maurice Guest. Admired by discerning critics, this novel has enjoyed quiet prestige for 20 years-from time to time a new edition is printed. In 1911 she planned a trilogy. The Fortunes of Richard Mahony, The Way Home, were commercial failures. Ultima Thule is the completing volume. Written in a rich, loamy, colloquial style, charged with vitality, it has won for its authoress long-awaited acclaim...
Unlike all other Chinese forces, Feng's army has never lived by plunder. When a battalion marches into some remote, Ultima Thulish town and encamps for a few days or months, the soldiers practice shoe making, tinsmithing, weaving, carpentering and all manner of simple crafts. Delighted and dazzled, the local farmers are usually all too glad to barter rice and other produce for the soldier's work...