Word: vanishes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Without women, the plot nags at the theological doubts of two younger Fathers. Suddenly all doubts vanish when a miracle seems to have cured a Father who has had paralysis. But the doubts reappear, concentrated in the person of the hero (Bert Lytell), when he learns under the secrecy of the confessional that the miracle was no miracle but only a case of courage induced by a happy dream. Since the Father Rector (William Ingersoll) has designated him to plead the case for the "miracle" and the canonization of the house's founder at Rome, Bert Lytell's faith...
...picture of the life of an "intellectual" under an unthinking, illogical government of uneducated proletarians is a very vivid one. Its chief feature is the sincere way in which it is painted. One sees poity prejudices and dislikes vanish before a willingness to do anything that will preserve life itself. The cumulative effect leads one to think that this book accomplishes its purpose: it presents a protest by a simple narration of events...
...Licenses. Unless Congress extends for another year the power of the President to license firms to do business under NRA, this club, so far unused, will vanish into thin air June...
...lethal gas. Private truckers under contract to the city's Sanitation Department call daily to collect carcasses, roll them out to Barren Island. There skinners pounce on horses and mules, cats with good fur. Horse hides make shoes, baseballs; cat hides which once became ladies' neckpieces, now vanish darkly into the Orient. Skinned carcasses are dumped in a big "digester," steamed to draw out fat. This is used for rough lubricating grease. Defatted remains are dried, ground up for fertilizer. Concessionaires pocket the profit...
Stand up, O homing phantom, stand up intact and declare The goodness of earth the greatest good you found, Ere the wind jolts you, and you vanish like the foam...