Word: nostalgia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Bates were natives of Massachusetts. He gave great gifts toward the founding of Boston Public Library. Their London years were cheered by opulence, popularity. But Poet Payne, who also spent most of his life away from his native U. S., was a homeless, often unhappy, expatriate, visited by the nostalgia which led him to write his famed song. When he met Mrs. Bates she asked him to inscribe the words in her autograph book. He did so, composed the two special stanzas, concluded: "I have added a few words more, addressed to you .... What this trifle wants in poetry...
...will attend them, and will be seen almost any night, armed with the proper sustenance and a cigar, listening to the music and wishing that the beer were real and that he were sitting under the cool and fragrant shade of the linden trees in--But that is pure nostalgia...
With the moisture of nostalgia glistening in his eyes, Tale-Teller Miiller concluded that when Paul von Hindenburg left school to enter the cadet corps he wrote to his brother...
...Rosing. This conception, depicting him as the protagonist of the negative to all human aspirations to good and beautiful giving, has been developed by the American Opera Company. In the opening scene, for instance. Faust is discovered in his study, a scholar of middle age, a victim of nostalgia, despairing over the futility of the search after knowledge by forfeiting all life's diversions, speculating on whether after all it may not be better to assent to the aphorism, "evil, be though my good...
...editorial goes on to wish a left-handed success to the successors; but that is not the point. In their nostalgia, the retiring editors are unaware of the essential humour of their remarks. They have found the Jester to be a sorry creature; but they forget that a sorry creature; conscious of his sorriness is pretty amusing to watch. Without their knowing it he has been sorry all along and I for one, have been amused by him. His imaginary figure fitting over the incubus of the proposed chapel or the Yale-Harvard scoreboard is as actual as any greybeard...