Word: veined
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fair-minded man who will read the truth as presented by the modern biographer. Realism is the watchword, and while it mercifully covers a multitude of sins for the biographer, it exposes those of his subject even more satisfactorily. Ludwig's "Napoleon" is in the realistic and intimate vein, it is inexorable in its determination "to examine this man's inner life; to explain his resolves and his refraining, his deeds and his sufferings, his fancies and his calculations, as issuing from the moods of his heart." The result is psycho-analysis at its best and at its worst...
...rather dull ballad of a questionable source, from the center of the stage. Now Lampy does not snore so loudly. He knows the present best. But Pity of Pities! The clock ticking backwards leads his mind down into chaotic, confused imaginings. We find Diogenes in a humorous vein. Descartes would die all over again, and probably has, at the incoherent paragraph written in his honor. Shades of his Mathematical System...
...That the Press exerts a harmful influence upon the community." At Boston College, the Cambridge men lost, but won from George Washington University (Washington, D. C.), on the proposition that that Government had intruded too far upon the rights of individuals. The Oxford wranglers, all facetious in the traditional vein of the Oxford Union, ranged with fairly consistent success as far west as Washington University (St. Louis, Mo.), which beat them on Prohibition. They achieved their most brilliant victory last week at Franklin & Marshall College, in Pennsylvania-Dutch Lancaster, Pa., not two hours distant from Valley Forge and the cradle...
...uncommon thing for a knocked-down deer to do. A bullet clipping a deer at the base of the horns or just above the spine will often stun the animal for some time. Experienced deerslayers invariably sever their kill's jugular vein immediately upon reaching it, in the interests of safety, mercy, and to bleed the meat while it is still warm...
...that the ignornt keepers of the chapel and the ignorant natives of the neighborhood are guilty of constant, unconscious vandalism against these ancient works of art. After witnessing with a shudder the desecration of the images by greasy hands and modern mud-daubed restorations, he proceeds in the solemn vein:--"Thus it was that I was enabled to set about a labour of love and reverently to pry from its pedestal a figure halting upon one knee, with sensitive hands clasped in adoration before its bosom (now in the Fogg). No vandal hand but mine had disturbed it for eleven...