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… only for a half day in their married life had Coot been completely in her good graces. The backseat fire burned … Ouida’s house, her old family home. After Ouida’s father died, Ouida and her mother (who died shortly afterward) had come home to live with Aunt …

… may not fight with fate. Earth still holds ope her gate; Come! come! the bells do cry. I am sick, I must die. Lord have mercy on us! Thomas Nashe—”Song” Seeing is … then holding in place, just so, with intricate laces and points, with hooks and eyes, with buttons large and small. …

… some entirely simple operation—it was like a motor that had died because the sparkplugs were dirty or because the … that no simple operation would save us; there had to be the complete renovation of society that Karl Marx had prophesied … Columbia. The Federal Reserve reported that it had lost $226 million in gold during the last four days. On Friday …

… Best 200 Words I Read All Week. From fact to fiction, from comedic to tragic, we hope you find as much to admire in … these selections as we do.    Click  here for access to the complete project archive    1.  The second man she had loved …

… attitude; this we may learn from Mr. Krutch, who has studied it in “The Modern Temper.” Modernism is a progressive … is skepticism and disillusionment, and ends in despair. We come to such a degree of self-consciousness that we question … of his mind. He presents his story preferably from the points of view of a succession of interested characters. …