Word: downward
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...these poems are open to all adverse criticism and all ridicule that has been unjustly hurled at such authentic writers of the new rhythms as Richard Aldington and F. S. Flint. Not content with writing six words as six different lines and sprawling them across the page at a downward angle of 45 degrees. Mr. Sanborn has given us lines made up of such monosyllables as "and", "up", "or," etc. And so seldom do we find any rhythmic pattern of even the "freest" kind that we are startled when it accidentally puts in an appearance. This is indeed "shredded prose...
There was a time not many years ago when the advent of a college man in politics was rather laughed at by so-called practical politicians, while by his friends it was regarded as a downward step. The politicians laughed because they thought the university graduate too unsophisticated to succeed, while the friends, on the other hand, thought the demeaned himself by association with these public servants. Yet these same friends who would not soil their hands, they say, by entering the arena, would not hesitate if their pockets were threatened by legislation to hire some lobbyist...
...doctors will have "relative rank" of officers in the British army, but will not enlist or receive commissions. Their pay, and that of the nurses, will be the "war pay" of their ranks, ranging downward, for the surgeons, from majors to subalterns. The University is expected to provide the supplies and instruments, so that immediately upon arrival the unit will be ready for work...
...beginning of the end for 1914 is tonight. When a class barbecues or country fairs or junkets, there is no hope. It is on the downward corkscrew path to the cold world. What do you mean--junket? It is vaguely nutritive, indefinably edible in sound. Possibly one eats or drinks junk; possibly, one just buys it. Who knows? Junket and be merry, oh Seniors, for tomorrow you may graduate...
...article entitled "The Freshman" published in the last "Outlook" Dean Castle has contributed an enlightening exposition of some of the influences to which a freshman is subject before and after entering college. He scouts the idea that the innate badness of the freshman soul is responsible for the downward trail that many take in their first year. "The true reason," he says, "is the innate goodness of the freshman soul, its untried, untutored purity." Although he blames the home training that has not gradually educated a boy to the use of his liberty, he accepts on the part...