Word: wrought
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...second scene was my doctoral oral. For early an hour I wrought havoc among the Indo-European vowels and consonants, like the demented Ajax with the sheep, and though that all was over, Bust across the gloom came a ray of hope in the form of a question from Mr. Kittredge which suggested that the questioner had not yet put on the black...
...military note. Men gathered in hundreds to sing God Bless America, and some of them wept. From the sidewalks they shouted "To hell with Hitler." The spirit was the old spirit: "What son-of-a-bitch, or combination of sonsofbitches, thinks he can lick us?" World War II had wrought a great change. Legion membership rose 20,000 in 1939; 25,000 more in 1940; 30,000 more this year...
With his habitual air of grumpy wisdom, Herbert Hoover last week summoned up a ghost: the ghost of Fisher Ames (1758-1808). The only living ex-President was making a speech to warn the U.S. against entry into the war. To show how wrought-up earlier interventionists had been, he quoted some of Ames's sentences on Napoleon which sounded exactly like Walter Lippmann's sentences on Hitler. Said Ames: "If Bonaparte prevails [in Europe], we will be his vassals. . . . Britain fights our battles. . . . One single hope of security is the British Navy. ... If Russia is disarmed...
...said Paw, "he done the handsome thing by you just like I did by your maw when Rinno was born. What are you so wrought up about? You'll make him feel he ain't welcome. You work on the WP & A?" Paw asked the boy. "Well this is like meeting an old friend. We're all just WP & A folks here. . . . You and Virginia kin have the bed in the corner all to yourselves...
...which combine elegance with self-pity. In the War Ministry, his job was to rule lines on to pay-sheets, "a duty he discharged with meticulous neatness, clad in a fancy-dress uniform." He had no conception of what was going on. Men by the millions were wrought into massive awareness of life & death; Rilke saw only evil and suffering, and little of that unless it frustrated him personally. He committed what is, for any great artist, a mortal error: "he underrated humanity...