Word: ye
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...narrative at times mounts to heights of power. In spots the author's craft becomes stagey and he permits here and there an anachronism of expression in the mouth of a character. Perhaps the greatest tribute payable to books of the sort can be paid to All Ye People. Though living in the time of the fulfillment, the reader feels not triteness in the prophecy he has seen realized. He finishes the book with a sense of anticipation and exultation, exultation skin to that of John Bray as he rides hard to join Clarissa on the final Westward road...
...blot the world, that the Vagabond at one point said the lecture was "today" and at another with equal calm stated that it was to be "tomorrow." He could make adequate rebuttal, but he won't. Did not Keats write of "Stout Cortez?" Are you not answered, oh ye of little faith? And anyway, it is part and parcel of the nuance, the devil may care, the grand elan that makes the Vagabond such a lovable old wastrel. Ask anyone you meet, "What makes the Vagabond such a delightful character?" and the answer will come back, "Why it's because...
...drunk and liked it very much. Maggie May was horrified and made him get a different job. Kip always accepted bribes, then arrested the briber, turned in the money to the office. He was also very successful at betraying dishonest colleagues. One of his bosses once told him: "Ye're a bit too gude for this worrld, young man; but ye'll have a fine time in the next one. I've nae doot." Even Author Sinclair calls his hero "a wet blanket, a killjoy, a spoilsport, a mollycoddle." "He had to be," explains Author Sinclair...
...befogged and you, dear reader, are heartily fed up with all this nonsense. In the words of Tiny Tim. "God Bless Ua, Every One." And in parting the Vagabond wants to extend his particular good wishes to the tutee who is about to take History 28. God rent ye merry...
...program for tonight follows: Harvard Hymn Paine Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring Bach Now Let Every Tongue Bach Turn Ye to Me Scotch Folk Song The Hundred Pipers Scotch Folk Song Spring Returns Marenzio Jesu Dulcis Vittoria Choruses from "The Gondoliers" Sullivan