Word: sparked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...brothers, the hopeful opinion that even the most reprehensible wretch is kin to God. His example is Jean Valjean, a strapping fellow, brutalized by 19 years in the chains of convict labor for the theft of a loaf of bread. The kindness of an old bishop causes the spark to glow in Valjean, so that after his release, he devotes himself to saintly deeds. He becomes mayor of a small French town, befriends a stricken harlot, adopts her child, Cosette. Later he retires to Paris to live quietly with his ward. Because of a trivial offense heedlessly committed after...
...Buff" Cobb did not permit college proms and parades to trample, nor her father's literary cigar smoke to stifle, her dancing spark of originality. She irreverently wrote in the Bookman, when she should have been thinking that the Bad Boys of the oldtime Smart Set were Great Intellects...
...another with kindly malice. Farther on, we have a romance of sorority life wherein the benefits of coeducation (absit omen!) are faithfully set down. Now both authors write of love after the college fashion, and accordingly you are bound to recognize some undergraduate friend "be he scholar, be he spark". Consider, for example, the diplomatic telephone call, the battle of wits in the margin of a library book, and there...
...pulmotor was not used, because : 1) His nose and mouth would have to be sealed ; 2 ) It would have a bad psychological effect on his morale; 3) It could not be so well regulated, since there was no spark of natural respiration...
...know how to handle it," said one Thomas Morris of East Portal, Col., as he stuffed a few unimpressive-looking sticks into the groins of James Peak. Next day, in the White House, President Coolidge approached a golden telegraph key, applied thereto his right forefinger. The stimulus of a spark danced across the continent. A few feet of granite were blasted out of their native bed and James Peak had a hole completely through its middle. Outside the hole, safely away from flying granite, Governor William H. Adams shook hands with Mayor C. Clarence Neslen of Salt Lake City...