Word: contentions
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Cutting's "The Consul's Nightingale" is the best of the stories. His style has backbone, he has an eye for the humorous and the picturesque and a knack for making the reader share his vision. Finally he is content to smile without laughing. Of the "screamingly funny" type, on the contrary, is Mr. Prince's. "In the Days of the Gods," which appears to be a vague and completely bowlderized reminiscence of an episode in the fifteenth book of the Iliad. One's screams, however, are not long prolonged. Of ten august and ancient inspirations, and no happier...
...seem a prodigious leap from Apelles to chromos, from the Greek tunic to ready-made clothes, or from the Parthenon to a house with a mansard roof covering nothing, but he took us over it lightly. Not to put up with what masquerades as excellence, not to be content with makeshifts, to know that to seek excellence is natural, and to learn, if only from the living instance before us, that it can be achieved in the things of every-day life, was one of the great lessons which he taught...
...necessary for a man to confine himself monotonously to fish and eggs in order to keep down his cating expenses. For $5.50 a week as large an assortment of meat may be had during the week as under the old plan. On the other hand, he who is content with the fish and egg menu may eat for less than...
...work as hard as he can for the millions of human atoms unknown to him, as he is unknown to them. Let him find satisfaction in good work and be content to say with the old philosopher of Weissnich: Two writings of mine, not indeed known as mine (for what am I), have fallen, perhaps not altogether void, into the mighty seed-field of Opinion; fruits of my unseen sowing gratifyingly meet me here and there. I thank the Heavens that I have now found my calling; Wherein, with or without perceptible result, I am minded diligently to persevere...
...municipal reform in the Union last evening. Those who were fortunate enough to be present heard a frank and sincere statement of what can be done practically to solve the burning municipal problem. There was no theory, no meaningless generalizations; simply a straightforward talk from a man, who, not content with the conclusion that municipal government is a failure, is working from the bottom up, by determining the defects that make possible political corruption in our cities...