Word: wide
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Significance. To read this latest of Donn Byrne's books is to walk a quiet way by the sea in Ireland and among greening hills and over the wide ends of the earth, with a kindly, brave man whose talk is chiefly mellow reminiscence. Because he thinks of gone days and people that live no longer, he thinks simply. His telling is not confused with detail. Because he is kindly and brave, he tells wistfully and with honesty of emphasis, without false pity for dead glories nor false praise for ancient virtues. Being Irish and a mellow man, he tells...
...here under the protecting shadow of the dome which crowns the halls of national legislation, we salute at the same time the cross of salvation and the banner of our nation. And while we send over the wide ocean our signals of love, devotion and loyalty to him who sits upon the throne of the Fisherman, we send also our respect ful salutations and our firm pledge of civic loyalty to the President of these United States...
...international reputation. In the past four years he has written a number of keen articles on American ideas and American politics, which have appeared in the "Correspondant" and other French periodicals. Last winter he published a series of articles on French literature from 1880 to 1924 which have attracted wide attention. M. Fay is one of the leaders of the modern French school, and he has been in great demand as a lecturer on the modern theories of criticism...
...again he touches upon a matter which student or non-student can find of equal concern. The loss of the race through lack of physical stamina of men who plan great works to carry them through to completion is, as he says, a convinceing argument. With a world-wide demand for leadership, it plainly behooves the world to do what it can to train its future leaders in a fashion to lessen, so far as may be, the handicap of the lagging body upon the mind that would go far on the road of progress. --Manchester Union...
...devours gigantic meals, gulps down gallons of wine and other drinkables. The story?what there is of it?covers that year of Pallieter's life when he found Marieke, a rosy Rubens virgin, married her straightaway, had by her a lusty set of triplets, departed with her into the wide world "as the birds do and the wind." Suspense and tragedy are wholly absent from the book...