Word: widespread
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Upon looking over his schedule for the morning, the Vagabond finds himself invited to a number of lectures so variegated in subject matter as to promise a highly diverting and instructive day. Economics, history, science, music and architecture are all on the bill of fare,--certainly a more widespread range of material could not be found to edify the versatile interests of a true vagabond, whose mind should be many-faceted...
...partly, doubtless, the result of the instantaneous communications and the widespread publicity of the modern world that the greatest flood in the nation's history arouses little more interest than the leading murder trial of the movement. In the days when news was exaggerated around all the campfires in the wilderness, the whole-hearted sympathy of the people would have turned towards the Mississippi valley; but now the city of New Orleans, its fate still hanging in the balance, causes less excitement than the struggle, several years ago, to save the life of one man trapped in a Kentucky cave...
...Such an expression can only come from deeply stirred feeling, a feeling that when our courts are under attack from agitators those who have a decent regard for them should stand together in their defence. It is because of the consideration one must feel for this attitude, which is widespread, as well as because of the high regard in which I hold both of these distinguished leaders, that I venture to recall certain facts regarding the history of our courts which ought to make for a better understanding between the opposing views...
Kuno Franke said of "Magda" some years ago, "It is one of those literary thunderclouds which are charged with the social and intellectual electricity of a whole age." And, inspite of women's suffrage, the widespread influence of modernistic schools of thought, and the unhampered liberty of the rising generation, it brings up an issue which today is far from dead--the great thundercloud of 30 years ago is still anything but a pale glimmer of heat lightening on the distant horizon...
...with a feline between them; Rembrandt represents The Holy Family itself "... With Cat"; there is also the famed cat of Visscher (1629-62), earliest of master line engravers, copies of which are now rare indeed. The prints used for Godey's Lady's Book reveal how widespread was puss's honored position in 19th Century society. The best ladies were seldom seen without a cat or cats, which were, in fact, so numerous that children fell over them in parlors...