Word: everyday
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...world not wholly bad. Delicately, temperately, he writes of "Springtime along the Pennsylvania Railroad," "Tenement Children," "Keats," "Friendship," "The Lackawanna Ferry." A flowery hedge, a regiment of roses, the filagrees of a frozen brook?these lift his heart; and his eye is quick to value those exquisite banalities of everyday life that the gross cannot see, and the great have not time to write about. When he sings of the "Pony Express," "The First Steamboat on the Mississippi," "The Coming of the Railroad," he strains his note; these themes call for a larger voice than...
Psychopathology of Everyday Life...
...Tuesday, September 24, Captain Stout's men were run through their first scrimmage. The following day Coach Roper divided the squad into two temporary groups, consisting of 25 and 34 men. Since then light scrimmages have been held frequently as well as the everyday kicking practice, usually with Slagle, captain of the 1927 Freshmen, and Weeks, a member of Slagle's team, receiving, and formation and signal drill...
...well which recognizes this abnormality and which goes to those most concerned for suggestions on how best to handle it. If more religious bodies could realize that young men are not at all interested in doctrinal disputes and theological discussions, but are very deeply interested in questions of practical everyday ethics, a great deal of the intellectual friction which occurs between the two generations might be eliminated...
Inasmuch as a playwright and an actress are not features of every home, no universal implication can be drawn from O'Neill's forceful yoking of two creatures so wildly attuned and so woefully apart. Despite the everyday naturalness of his domestic shambles, he makes out no general case for marriage as a vise and a vice. Plentifully in evidence is his instinctive plumbing of the human heart, and his flair for real talk in copious draughts. But the searchlight of his realism throws up figures that are drab instead of highly colored. Jacob Ben Ami rather luxuriates...