Word: vanitatum
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...Vanitas vanitatum...
...Albert H. Nichelson, is unusually vivid for so short a piece, owing to good discrimination in the choice of detail. "Marjorie" is an interesting golf sketch by W. Wadsworth, though perhaps Marjorie's part in the story is somewhat unlikely. "Belknap Inn," by R. W. Child, and "Vanitas Vanitatum," by F. M. Class, are both well told, the former with some descriptive power, the latter with a good insight into the characters which it contains. By far the most original story, however, is "The Bluff of Rogers," by R. W. Ruhl. It is full of a droll humor that lightens...
...exile. In Venice were written Don Juan; then his dramas, none of them masterpieces, and the Vision of Justice, which caused great consternation. Don Juan is a picture of the world as Byron saw it; he had drunk the cup of pleasure and had found all vanitus vanitatum...
...from door to table the lustre-lacking eye, the half-closed mouth, the colorless cheek, the indifferent greeting with a sideward duck of the head, are undoubtedly considered the accurate external indications of a mind and body which have probed life's complexity, a mind which has said : "Vanitas vanitatum, omnia vanitas;" a body which has answered : "Very true, it is 'the thing' to live and move and have our being, however, we must put up with...
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