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...folklore. He was austere towards priests like Padre Martinez, the bison-shouldered Mexican at Taos, brazen in fleshliness. But when Jacinto, his Indian guide, led him through a blizzard to shelter in a secret, tribal, mountain cave, the Bishop honored the inscrutable and did not ask if the vibrant mystery of the place was, besides a buried river, some ceremonial monster, an infant-devouring serpent as legend said...
...exactly a good influence. You see, I was very young and homesick and I wrote very sad things. Boston was a very vibrant city then; it had its influence upon me naturally...
...been imperfectly timed last week, the Commons came scrambling after the Black Rod into the House of Lords with unseemly haste. Soon the Lord President of the Council, the Earl of Balfour, knelt and presented to His Majesty a scroll containing "The King's Speech." In clear, vibrant tones, distinctly audible to everyone, George V read what purported to be his own speech...
...splendor of Augustan days. Missing Minister. Though Mussolini sped the issuance of his Cabinet's decrees behind locked portals, the reported absence from this vital session of Minister of Interior Luigi Federzoni loomed of major import. Signor Federzoni is suave, aristocratic, bland. His voice has a low vibrant timbre, which engenders fear. It is well known that he attends Mass every morning before seeking his Ministry. Perhaps less known is the fact that in the councils of Fascismo he speaks- not always softly-for the Vatican. At his insistance Roberto Farinacci, "the Scourge of Fascismo," long, right-hand terrorist...
...frequently paid before but in a style more ambitious than his usual utterance. Consider the following sentence: "And when the wanton ravages of war reduced this once flourishing institution, which had spoken so boldly in the cause of liberty, to a state that left little but the vibrant tones of the college bell and the fervent prayers of a devout President, it was a distinguished son of Harvard, Senator Hoar, who pleaded her just cause with such eloquence in the halls of Congress that a dilatory Government at last made restitution for a part of the damage done, that this...