Word: feigned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Help us ordinary guys, the sort who read and enjoyed Gone With the Wind and Jurgen and who can take all of Victor Herbert and only some of Brahms and Tchaikovsky. We are the kind of Americans who are not going to feign seeing something that we don't see. . . . How come Braque's wine bottle with ears, containing light colored fluid on one side of the bottle, dark on the other? Why the screwy perspective? Go ahead TIME, get hot, get arty as Hell, educate us ordinary birds who have our hair cut every two weeks. There...
...this, in the case of young children, the abhorrence of the Church is maximum. Further, last week's Pastoral Letter explicitly declared that for a Catholic to be a Socialist, or study or teach Socialism, or cooperate to Socialist ends, or even for appearance's sake to feign to approve Socialism, is to commit a "mortal...
...appeared as "a graveyard ghoul, a chilling spectral horror . . . frightening now only to listeners of ghost stories or children whistling past cemeteries." Its influence was tremendous. When the bubonic scourge swept Europe in 1373 wakes for the dead assumed an insane gaiety. While germs raged, one male dancer would feign death and a bevy of girls would hover around him, attempting to kiss him back to life. Such aberrations were widely spread. A band of German children danced hectically from Erfurt to Arnstadt (12 mi.), many of them dying on the way, the rest living on, completely shattered mentally. Another...
Rich, imperious and never a man to feign false modesty, Cardinal O'Connell is discreet in print. He tells how. a poor boy of eleven, he worked for one morning in a Lowell cotton mill, but he fails to mention his present opposition to the Child Labor Amendment. Describing the conclaves for elections of Popes in 1914 and 1922, for both of which he arrived in Rome too late to vote, the rugged Cardinal does not set down the peppery remarks he made after the second one to Cardinal Gasparri who was in charge. Nor does Cardinal...
...light of a thousand candles, lived and worked the other unfortunate inmates of the vast and awe-inspiring edifice. Unfortunate they were indeed to be called, for not one of them who appeared smiling and joyous but wore his smile as a mask to counterfeit his humour, and feign a satisfaction which in reality he had no hope of possessing. Indeed, each as he worked was occupied with such melancholick reflections as might have befitted Panterias the sage, when the future course of his life was revealed to him by the haruspex; as that all the labors of the scholar...