Word: vanish
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tree or the weathered slabs of a thatched shed take form from Artist Rackham's pen, and the first thing you know the tree or shed is leering at you like a weird warlock, or smiling like an oldtime grandmother, put of eyes and mouths that vanish when you look closely. Only some knots, bark or grain-wrinkles remain. A gnarled shrub will be writhing and snickering like a soul lost and sarcastic in a twilit place, until you examine. Then you see it was only some Rackham lines, perpetually innocent in their deceit...
Sour Grapes. Vincent Lawrence has written another play around his favorite theme. A couple, hopelessly out of love with each other, rebel against the Divine Will that bids amorous romance vanish soon after marriage. They decide to live in the illusion that they are really in love. It may be only "throwing bean bags at the Gods" but it will be a righteous gesture against divine tyranny. In their common enthusiasm for the game, they find that the spark of their former love is rekindled. The sour grapes are within reach-and sweet. The trouble with the play is that...
...Bakeless' last chapter, dealing with the weapons of the next war, proposes a striking remedy. War will be fought by entire populations with chemistry and bacteriology as well as airplanes and submarines. War will be everywhere. The distinction between soldiers and non-combatants will vanish. . . . "The solution of the whole problem is simple enough--so simple and so evident that there is little hope anyone will pay the least heed to it. We need but study the underlying causes of modern war, spread a knowledge of them among the people who must do the fighting, demonstrate the relatively slight chances...
...animals and catch them and get into their noses and out again, the adult flies must range immense tracts of country at terrific speed. To the human eye, their passing is "of such incredible swiftness that one is utterly unable to initiate any movement whatever toward capture" before they vanish from sight. "Form is not sensed by the eye as they pass, but merely a blur or streak of color, and only a fleeting glimpse of that." Dr. Townsend estimates their speed at upwards of 400 yards a second. Arguing that it is certain that what has been attained...
Such is the evil of volubility. For offended fairies wave their wands only to vanish. To the motto, "silence is golden", there might well be added "Speak not until you are spoken to" Speechlessness is still a Sphinx's greatest asset...