Word: extraction
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ballads, songs or snatches; but one, a young Columbia University Assistant Professor "on the make" has turned out a very crisp and searing exposé5 of the hypocritical process by which the white man shoulders a "burden" of profitable produce which he has made the colonial native extract from soil rightly his. The other U. S. ruminator cited is the Editor of Foreign Affairs.6 He starts with such elementals as that "Balkans" was originally a Turkish word meaning simply "mountains"; and then proceeds to untangle the Balkan post-War skein. His major prophecy is the gradual supplanting of France...
There are some paragraphs in "Shoot" from which this reviewer could extract no meaning even after the most careful attention...
...extract from a letter of Downing in the tract, "A Great Victory God hath Vouchsafed by the Lord General Cromwels Forces against the Scots", is illuminating. "Col: Scot, or Petty Scot isflaine and Col: Buchanan (a man of great eminence and estate among them is taken prifoner as also is Sir John Brown their Commander in chief: Of their foot not 200 escaped and those that are prifoners the most of them are desperately wounded they will hardly live; all their foot Colors are taken and many of their harfe the most of their foot are High landers the reft...
...vision--Great Caesar's Ghost! It is by far the best and cleverest in the whole magazine. (Fame for the angel who then hovered over Lampy's dull bed.) Next, we should place the bit of sparkling by-play between Boccacio and Shakespeare. Next, we should place the delightful extract from a disciple of Carl Sandburg. From these three elections, you see the present holds the rubber, and Lampy's costume party is not a success...
...Extract the brains from the public, pickle them, put them in the Natural History Museum with a strong infusion of monkey gland, stir hard and let simmer for 100 years. Something may emerge from the mixture...