Mark Twain - The Memorable Assassination

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  1. untraceable
    incapable of being traced or tracked down
    It is an event which confers a curious distinction upon every individual
    now living in the world: he has stood alive and breathing in the
    presence of an event such as has not fallen within the experience of any
    traceable or untraceable ancestor of his for twenty centuries, and it
    is not likely to fall within the experience of any descendant of his for
    twenty more.
  2. mangy
    affected with a skin disease causing itching and hair loss
    He is at the
    bottom of the human ladder, as the accepted estimates of degree and
    value go: a soiled and patched young loafer, without gifts, without
    talents, without education, without morals, without character, without
    any born charm or any acquired one that wins or beguiles or attracts;
    without a single grace of mind or heart or hand that any tramp or
    prostitute could envy him; an unfaithful private in the ranks, an
    incompetent stone-cutter, an inefficient lackey; in a word, a mangy...
  3. mephitic
    of noxious stench from atmospheric pollution
    He is at the
    bottom of the human ladder, as the accepted estimates of degree and
    value go: a soiled and patched young loafer, without gifts, without
    talents, without education, without morals, without character, without
    any born charm or any acquired one that wins or beguiles or attracts;
    without a single grace of mind or heart or hand that any tramp or
    prostitute could envy him; an unfaithful private in the ranks, an
    incompetent stone-cutter, an inefficient lackey; in a word, a mangy,
    offen...
  4. snuff out
    put an end to; kill
    Love
    is a madness; if thwarted it develops fast; it can grow to a frenzy
    of despair and make an otherwise sane and highly gifted prince, like
    Rudolph, throw away the crown of an empire and snuff out his own life.
  5. electrify
    equip for use with charged energy
    The murder of
    an empress then--even the assassination of Caesar himself--could not
    electrify the world as this murder has electrified it.
  6. bummer
    an experience that is frustrating or disappointing
    At
    our best and stateliest we are not suns, as we pretended, and teach, and
    believe, but only candles; and any bummer can blow us out.
  7. month by month
    for an indefinite number of months
    For one reason,
    there was then not much of a world to electrify; it was a small world,
    as to known bulk, and it had rather a thin population, besides; and for
    another reason, the news traveled so slowly that its tremendous initial
    thrill wasted away, week by week and month by month, on the journey, and
    by the time it reached the remoter regions there was but little of it
    left.
  8. populate
    inhabit or live in; be an inhabitant of
    But the world is enormous
    now, and prodigiously populated--that is one change; and another is the
    lightning swiftness of the flight of tidings, good and bad.
  9. polecat
    American musteline mammal typically ejecting an intensely malodorous fluid when startled; in some classifications put in a separate subfamily Mephitinae
    He is at the
    bottom of the human ladder, as the accepted estimates of degree and
    value go: a soiled and patched young loafer, without gifts, without
    talents, without education, without morals, without character, without
    any born charm or any acquired one that wins or beguiles or attracts;
    without a single grace of mind or heart or hand that any tramp or
    prostitute could envy him; an unfaithful private in the ranks, an
    incompetent stone-cutter, an inefficient lackey; in a word, a mangy,
    offen...
  10. week by week
    weekly
    For one reason,
    there was then not much of a world to electrify; it was a small world,
    as to known bulk, and it had rather a thin population, besides; and for
    another reason, the news traveled so slowly that its tremendous initial
    thrill wasted away, week by week and month by month, on the journey, and
    by the time it reached the remoter regions there was but little of it
    left.
  11. madness
    the quality of being rash and foolish
    When this
    madness is in a mild form it is harmless and the man passes for sane;
    but when it develops powerfully and takes possession of the man, it can
    make him cheat, rob, and kill; and when he has got his fortune and lost
    it again it can land him in the asylum or the suicide's coffin.
  12. breathing in
    the act of inhaling; the drawing in of air as in breathing
    It is an event which confers a curious distinction upon every individual
    now living in the world: he has stood alive and breathing in the
    presence of an event such as has not fallen within the experience of any
    traceable or untraceable ancestor of his for twenty centuries, and it
    is not likely to fall within the experience of any descendant of his for
    twenty more.
  13. empress
    a woman emperor or the wife of an emperor
    The murder of an empress is the largest of all events.
  14. notoriety
    the state of being known for some unfavorable act or quality
    This common madness can develop, by nurture, into a
    hunger for notoriety in one, for fame in another.
  15. unwashed
    not cleaned with or as if with soap and water
    He is at the
    bottom of the human ladder, as the accepted estimates of degree and
    value go: a soiled and patched young loafer, without gifts, without
    talents, without education, without morals, without character, without
    any born charm or any acquired one that wins or beguiles or attracts;
    without a single grace of mind or heart or hand that any tramp or
    prostitute could envy him; an unfaithful private in the ranks, an
    incompetent stone-cutter, an inefficient lackey; in a word, a mangy,
    offen...
  16. napoleon
    a rectangular piece of pastry with thin flaky layers and filled with custard cream
    It is this madness
    for being noticed and talked about which has invented kingship and the
    thousand other dignities, and tricked them out with pretty and showy
    fineries; it has made kings pick one another's pockets, scramble for one
    another's crowns and estates, slaughter one another's subjects; it has
    raised up prize-fighters, and poets, and villages mayors, and little
    and big politicians, and big and little charity-founders, and bicycle
    champions, and banditti chiefs, and frontier desperado...
  17. raise up
    change the arrangement or position of
    It is this madness
    for being noticed and talked about which has invented kingship and the
    thousand other dignities, and tricked them out with pretty and showy
    fineries; it has made kings pick one another's pockets, scramble for one
    another's crowns and estates, slaughter one another's subjects; it has
    raised up prize-fighters, and poets, and villages mayors, and little
    and big politicians, and big and little charity-founders, and bicycle
    champions, and banditti chiefs, and frontier de...
  18. prodigiously
    to a prodigious degree
    But the world is enormous
    now, and prodigiously populated--that is one change; and another is the
    lightning swiftness of the flight of tidings, good and bad.
  19. unchallenged
    generally agreed upon; not subject to questions
    The
    oldest family of unchallenged descent in Christendom lives in Rome and
    traces its line back seventeen hundred years, but no member of it has
    been present in the earth when an empress was murdered, until now.
  20. sacredness
    the quality of being sacred
    And it was within the privileges and powers of this
    sarcasm upon the human race to reach up--up--up--and strike from its far
    summit in the social skies the world's accepted ideal of Glory and Might
    and Splendor and Sacredness!
  21. event
    something that happens at a given place and time
    The more one thinks of the assassination, the more imposing and
    tremendous the event becomes.
  22. kingship
    the dignity or rank or position of a king
    It is this madness
    for being noticed and talked about which has invented kingship and the
    thousand other dignities, and tricked them out with pretty and showy
    fineries; it has made kings pick one another's pockets, scramble for one
    another's crowns and estates, slaughter one another's subjects; it has
    raised up prize-fighters, and poets, and villages mayors, and little
    and big politicians, and big and little charity-founders, and bicycle
    champions, and banditti chiefs, and frontier de...
  23. desperado
    a bold outlaw
    It is this madness
    for being noticed and talked about which has invented kingship and the
    thousand other dignities, and tricked them out with pretty and showy
    fineries; it has made kings pick one another's pockets, scramble for one
    another's crowns and estates, slaughter one another's subjects; it has
    raised up prize-fighters, and poets, and villages mayors, and little
    and big politicians, and big and little charity-founders, and bicycle
    champions, and banditti chiefs, and frontier desper...
  24. traceable
    capable of being tracked or detected
    It is an event which confers a curious distinction upon every individual
    now living in the world: he has stood alive and breathing in the
    presence of an event such as has not fallen within the experience of any
    traceable or untraceable ancestor of his for twenty centuries, and it
    is not likely to fall within the experience of any descendant of his for
    twenty more.
  25. sane
    mentally healthy; free from mental disorder
    When this
    madness is in a mild form it is harmless and the man passes for sane;
    but when it develops powerfully and takes possession of the man, it can
    make him cheat, rob, and kill; and when he has got his fortune and lost
    it again it can land him in the asylum or the suicide's coffin.
  26. murder
    unlawful premeditated killing of a human being
    The destruction of a city is a large
    event, but it is one which repeats itself several times in a thousand
    years; the destruction of a third part of a nation by plague and famine
    is a large event, but it has happened several times in history; the
    murder of a king is a large event, but it has been frequent.
  27. nurture
    provide with nourishment
    This common madness can develop, by nurture, into a
    hunger for notoriety in one, for fame in another.
  28. loafer
    a person who is idle and does no work
    He is at the
    bottom of the human ladder, as the accepted estimates of degree and
    value go: a soiled and patched young loafer, without gifts, without
    talents, without education, without morals, without character, without
    any born charm or any acquired one that wins or beguiles or attracts;
    without a single grace of mind or heart or hand that any tramp or
    prostitute could envy him; an unfaithful private in the ranks, an
    incompetent stone-cutter, an inefficient lackey; in a word, a mangy...
  29. beguile
    attract; cause to be enamored
    He is at the
    bottom of the human ladder, as the accepted estimates of degree and
    value go: a soiled and patched young loafer, without gifts, without
    talents, without education, without morals, without character, without
    any born charm or any acquired one that wins or beguiles or attracts;
    without a single grace of mind or heart or hand that any tramp or
    prostitute could envy him; an unfaithful private in the ranks, an
    incompetent stone-cutter, an inefficient lackey; in a word, a mangy...
  30. Cape Town
    port city in southwestern South Africa
    When those amazing words struck upon my ear in this
    Austrian village last Saturday, three hours after the disaster, I knew
    that it was already old news in London, Paris, Berlin, New York, San
    Francisco, Japan, China, Melbourne, Cape Town, Bombay, Madras,
    Calcutta, and that the entire globe with a single voice, was cursing
    the perpetrator of it.
  31. perpetrator
    someone who commits wrongdoing
    When those amazing words struck upon my ear in this
    Austrian village last Saturday, three hours after the disaster, I knew
    that it was already old news in London, Paris, Berlin, New York, San
    Francisco, Japan, China, Melbourne, Cape Town, Bombay, Madras,
    Calcutta, and that the entire globe with a single voice, was cursing
    the perpetrator of it.
  32. unfaithful
    not true to duty, obligation, or promises
    He is at the
    bottom of the human ladder, as the accepted estimates of degree and
    value go: a soiled and patched young loafer, without gifts, without
    talents, without education, without morals, without character, without
    any born charm or any acquired one that wins or beguiles or attracts;
    without a single grace of mind or heart or hand that any tramp or
    prostitute could envy him; an unfaithful private in the ranks, an
    incompetent stone-cutter, an inefficient lackey; in a word, a mangy...
  33. amaze
    affect with wonder
    When those amazing words struck upon my ear in this
    Austrian village last Saturday, three hours after the disaster, I knew
    that it was already old news in London, Paris, Berlin, New York, San
    Francisco, Japan, China, Melbourne, Cape Town, Bombay, Madras,
    Calcutta, and that the entire globe with a single voice, was cursing
    the perpetrator of it.
  34. predilection
    a predisposition in favor of something
    All the whole list of desires, predilections, aversions, ambitions,
    passions, cares, griefs, regrets, remorses, are incipient madness, and
    ready to grow, spread, and consume, when the occasion comes.
  35. incipient
    only partly in existence; imperfectly formed
    All the whole list of desires, predilections, aversions, ambitions,
    passions, cares, griefs, regrets, remorses, are incipient madness, and
    ready to grow, spread, and consume, when the occasion comes.
  36. outstrip
    go far ahead of
    And in five minutes' time, at no
    cost of brain, or labor, or genius this mangy Italian tramp has beaten
    them all, transcended them all, outstripped them all, for in time their
    names will perish; but by the friendly help of the insane newspapers and
    courts and kings and historians, his is safe and live and thunder in the
    world all down the ages as long as human speech shall endure!
  37. lackey
    a servile or submissive follower
    He is at the
    bottom of the human ladder, as the accepted estimates of degree and
    value go: a soiled and patched young loafer, without gifts, without
    talents, without education, without morals, without character, without
    any born charm or any acquired one that wins or beguiles or attracts;
    without a single grace of mind or heart or hand that any tramp or
    prostitute could envy him; an unfaithful private in the ranks, an
    incompetent stone-cutter, an inefficient lackey; in a word, a mangy...
  38. assassination
    murder of a public figure by surprise attack
    The more one thinks of the assassination, the more imposing and
    tremendous the event becomes.
  39. sneaking
    not openly expressed
    He is at the
    bottom of the human ladder, as the accepted estimates of degree and
    value go: a soiled and patched young loafer, without gifts, without
    talents, without education, without morals, without character, without
    any born charm or any acquired one that wins or beguiles or attracts;
    without a single grace of mind or heart or hand that any tramp or
    prostitute could envy him; an unfaithful private in the ranks, an
    incompetent stone-cutter, an inefficient lackey; in a word, a mangy,
    offen...
  40. idiotic
    having a mental age of three to seven years
    Every
    child is pleased at being noticed; many intolerable children put in
    their whole time in distressing and idiotic effort to attract the
    attention of visitors; boys are always "showing off"; apparently all
    men and women are glad and grateful when they find that they have done
    a thing which has lifted them for a moment out of obscurity and caused
    wondering talk.
  41. startle
    surprise greatly
    Many
    a time during these seventeen centuries members of that family have
    been startled with the news of extraordinary events--the destruction
    of cities, the fall of thrones, the murder of kings, the wreck of
    dynasties, the extinction of religions, the birth of new systems of
    government; and their descendants have been by to hear of it and talk
    about it when all these things were repeated once, twice, or a dozen
    times--but to even that family has come news at last which is not staled
    b...
  42. inefficient
    not producing desired results; wasteful
    He is at the
    bottom of the human ladder, as the accepted estimates of degree and
    value go: a soiled and patched young loafer, without gifts, without
    talents, without education, without morals, without character, without
    any born charm or any acquired one that wins or beguiles or attracts;
    without a single grace of mind or heart or hand that any tramp or
    prostitute could envy him; an unfaithful private in the ranks, an
    incompetent stone-cutter, an inefficient lackey; in a word, a mangy...
  43. showy
    superficially attractive and stylish
    It is this madness
    for being noticed and talked about which has invented kingship and the
    thousand other dignities, and tricked them out with pretty and showy
    fineries; it has made kings pick one another's pockets, scramble for one
    another's crowns and estates, slaughter one another's subjects; it has
    raised up prize-fighters, and poets, and villages mayors, and little
    and big politicians, and big and little charity-founders, and bicycle
    champions, and banditti chiefs, and frontier de...
  44. finery
    elaborate or showy attire and accessories
    It is this madness
    for being noticed and talked about which has invented kingship and the
    thousand other dignities, and tricked them out with pretty and showy
    fineries; it has made kings pick one another's pockets, scramble for one
    another's crowns and estates, slaughter one another's subjects; it has
    raised up prize-fighters, and poets, and villages mayors, and little
    and big politicians, and big and little charity-founders, and bicycle
    champions, and banditti chiefs, and frontier de...
  45. patched
    mended usually clumsily by covering a hole with a patch
    He is at the
    bottom of the human ladder, as the accepted estimates of degree and
    value go: a soiled and patched young loafer, without gifts, without
    talents, without education, without morals, without character, without
    any born charm or any acquired one that wins or beguiles or attracts;
    without a single grace of mind or heart or hand that any tramp or
    prostitute could envy him; an unfaithful private in the ranks, an
    incompetent stone-cutter, an inefficient lackey; in a word, a mangy...
  46. populated
    furnished with inhabitants
    But the world is enormous
    now, and prodigiously populated--that is one change; and another is the
    lightning swiftness of the flight of tidings, good and bad.
  47. Madras
    a state in southeastern India on the Bay of Bengal
    When those amazing words struck upon my ear in this
    Austrian village last Saturday, three hours after the disaster, I knew
    that it was already old news in London, Paris, Berlin, New York, San
    Francisco, Japan, China, Melbourne, Cape Town, Bombay, Madras,
    Calcutta, and that the entire globe with a single voice, was cursing
    the perpetrator of it.
  48. show off
    display proudly; act ostentatiously or pretentiously
    Every
    child is pleased at being noticed; many intolerable children put in
    their whole time in distressing and idiotic effort to attract the
    attention of visitors; boys are always "showing off"; apparently all
    men and women are glad and grateful when they find that they have done
    a thing which has lifted them for a moment out of obscurity and caused
    wondering talk.
  49. noticed
    being perceived or observed
    One of the commonest forms of madness is the desire to be noticed, the
    pleasure derived from being noticed.
  50. thwarted
    disappointingly unsuccessful
    Love
    is a madness; if thwarted it develops fast; it can grow to a frenzy
    of despair and make an otherwise sane and highly gifted prince, like
    Rudolph, throw away the crown of an empire and snuff out his own life.
  51. incompetent
    not qualified or suited for a purpose
    He is at the
    bottom of the human ladder, as the accepted estimates of degree and
    value go: a soiled and patched young loafer, without gifts, without
    talents, without education, without morals, without character, without
    any born charm or any acquired one that wins or beguiles or attracts;
    without a single grace of mind or heart or hand that any tramp or
    prostitute could envy him; an unfaithful private in the ranks, an
    incompetent stone-cutter, an inefficient lackey; in a word, a mangy...
  52. swiftness
    a rate (usually rapid) at which something happens
    But the world is enormous
    now, and prodigiously populated--that is one change; and another is the
    lightning swiftness of the flight of tidings, good and bad.
  53. seventeen
    the cardinal number that is the sum of sixteen and one
    The
    oldest family of unchallenged descent in Christendom lives in Rome and
    traces its line back seventeen hundred years, but no member of it has
    been present in the earth when an empress was murdered, until now.
  54. duplicate
    a copy that corresponds to an original exactly
    Many
    a time during these seventeen centuries members of that family have
    been startled with the news of extraordinary events--the destruction
    of cities, the fall of thrones, the murder of kings, the wreck of
    dynasties, the extinction of religions, the birth of new systems of
    government; and their descendants have been by to hear of it and talk
    about it when all these things were repeated once, twice, or a dozen
    times--but to even that family has come news at last which is not staled
    by use, ...
  55. soiled
    soiled or likely to soil with dirt or grime
    He is at the
    bottom of the human ladder, as the accepted estimates of degree and
    value go: a soiled and patched young loafer, without gifts, without
    talents, without education, without morals, without character, without
    any born charm or any acquired one that wins or beguiles or attracts;
    without a single grace of mind or heart or hand that any tramp or
    prostitute could envy him; an unfaithful private in the ranks, an
    incompetent stone-cutter, an inefficient lackey; in a word, a mangy...
  56. transcend
    go beyond the scope or limits of
    And in five minutes' time, at no
    cost of brain, or labor, or genius this mangy Italian tramp has beaten
    them all, transcended them all, outstripped them all, for in time their
    names will perish; but by the friendly help of the insane newspapers and
    courts and kings and historians, his is safe and live and thunder in the
    world all down the ages as long as human speech shall endure!
  57. descendant
    a person considered as coming from some ancestor or race
    Many
    a time during these seventeen centuries members of that family have
    been startled with the news of extraordinary events--the destruction
    of cities, the fall of thrones, the murder of kings, the wreck of
    dynasties, the extinction of religions, the birth of new systems of
    government; and their descendants have been by to hear of it and talk
    about it when all these things were repeated once, twice, or a dozen
    times--but to even that family has come news at last which is not staled
    b...
  58. pedestal
    an architectural support or base
    Without our clothes and our pedestals we are poor things
    and much of a size; our dignities are not real, our pomps are shams.
  59. tramp
    travel on foot, especially on a walking expedition
    He is at the
    bottom of the human ladder, as the accepted estimates of degree and
    value go: a soiled and patched young loafer, without gifts, without
    talents, without education, without morals, without character, without
    any born charm or any acquired one that wins or beguiles or attracts;
    without a single grace of mind or heart or hand that any tramp or
    prostitute could envy him; an unfaithful private in the ranks, an
    incompetent stone-cutter, an inefficient lackey; in a word, a mangy...
  60. scramble
    move hurriedly
    It is this madness
    for being noticed and talked about which has invented kingship and the
    thousand other dignities, and tricked them out with pretty and showy
    fineries; it has made kings pick one another's pockets, scramble for one
    another's crowns and estates, slaughter one another's subjects; it has
    raised up prize-fighters, and poets, and villages mayors, and little
    and big politicians, and big and little charity-founders, and bicycle
    champions, and banditti chiefs, and frontier de...
  61. destruction
    an event that completely ruins something
    The destruction of a city is a large
    event, but it is one which repeats itself several times in a thousand
    years; the destruction of a third part of a nation by plague and famine
    is a large event, but it has happened several times in history; the
    murder of a king is a large event, but it has been frequent.
  62. stale
    lacking freshness, palatability, or showing deterioration
    Many
    a time during these seventeen centuries members of that family have
    been startled with the news of extraordinary events--the destruction
    of cities, the fall of thrones, the murder of kings, the wreck of
    dynasties, the extinction of religions, the birth of new systems of
    government; and their descendants have been by to hear of it and talk
    about it when all these things were repeated once, twice, or a dozen
    times--but to even that family has come news at last which is not staled
    b...
  63. murdered
    killed unlawfully
    The
    oldest family of unchallenged descent in Christendom lives in Rome and
    traces its line back seventeen hundred years, but no member of it has
    been present in the earth when an empress was murdered, until now.
  64. distressing
    bad; unfortunate
    Every
    child is pleased at being noticed; many intolerable children put in
    their whole time in distressing and idiotic effort to attract the
    attention of visitors; boys are always "showing off"; apparently all
    men and women are glad and grateful when they find that they have done
    a thing which has lifted them for a moment out of obscurity and caused
    wondering talk.
  65. extinction
    the state of being no longer in existence
    Many
    a time during these seventeen centuries members of that family have
    been startled with the news of extraordinary events--the destruction
    of cities, the fall of thrones, the murder of kings, the wreck of
    dynasties, the extinction of religions, the birth of new systems of
    government; and their descendants have been by to hear of it and talk
    about it when all these things were repeated once, twice, or a dozen
    times--but to even that family has come news at last which is not staled
    b...
  66. powerfully
    in a powerful manner
    When this
    madness is in a mild form it is harmless and the man passes for sane;
    but when it develops powerfully and takes possession of the man, it can
    make him cheat, rob, and kill; and when he has got his fortune and lost
    it again it can land him in the asylum or the suicide's coffin.
  67. until now
    used in negative statement to describe a situation that has existed up to this point or up to the present time
    The
    oldest family of unchallenged descent in Christendom lives in Rome and
    traces its line back seventeen hundred years, but no member of it has
    been present in the earth when an empress was murdered, until now.
  68. prostitute
    someone who engages in sexual contact for money
    He is at the
    bottom of the human ladder, as the accepted estimates of degree and
    value go: a soiled and patched young loafer, without gifts, without
    talents, without education, without morals, without character, without
    any born charm or any acquired one that wins or beguiles or attracts;
    without a single grace of mind or heart or hand that any tramp or
    prostitute could envy him; an unfaithful private in the ranks, an
    incompetent stone-cutter, an inefficient lackey; in a word, a mangy...
  69. globe
    an object with a spherical shape
    When those amazing words struck upon my ear in this
    Austrian village last Saturday, three hours after the disaster, I knew
    that it was already old news in London, Paris, Berlin, New York, San
    Francisco, Japan, China, Melbourne, Cape Town, Bombay, Madras,
    Calcutta, and that the entire globe with a single voice, was cursing
    the perpetrator of it.
  70. regrets
    a polite refusal of an invitation
    All the whole list of desires, predilections, aversions, ambitions,
    passions, cares, griefs, regrets, remorses, are incipient madness, and
    ready to grow, spread, and consume, when the occasion comes.
  71. notice
    the act of paying attention
    One of the commonest forms of madness is the desire to be noticed, the
    pleasure derived from being noticed.
  72. sarcasm
    witty language used to convey insults or scorn
    And it was within the privileges and powers of this
    sarcasm upon the human race to reach up--up--up--and strike from its far
    summit in the social skies the world's accepted ideal of Glory and Might
    and Splendor and Sacredness!
  73. bandit
    an outlaw who is (usually) a member of a group
    It is this madness
    for being noticed and talked about which has invented kingship and the
    thousand other dignities, and tricked them out with pretty and showy
    fineries; it has made kings pick one another's pockets, scramble for one
    another's crowns and estates, slaughter one another's subjects; it has
    raised up prize-fighters, and poets, and villages mayors, and little
    and big politicians, and big and little charity-founders, and bicycle
    champions, and banditti chiefs, and frontier de...
  74. Calcutta
    the largest city in India and one of the largest cities in the world; located in eastern India; suffers from poverty and overcrowding
    When those amazing words struck upon my ear in this
    Austrian village last Saturday, three hours after the disaster, I knew
    that it was already old news in London, Paris, Berlin, New York, San
    Francisco, Japan, China, Melbourne, Cape Town, Bombay, Madras,
    Calcutta, and that the entire globe with a single voice, was cursing
    the perpetrator of it.
  75. news
    information about recent and important events
    Many
    a time during these seventeen centuries members of that family have
    been startled with the news of extraordinary events--the destruction
    of cities, the fall of thrones, the murder of kings, the wreck of
    dynasties, the extinction of religions, the birth of new systems of
    government; and their descendants have been by to hear of it and talk
    about it when all these things were repeated once, twice, or a dozen
    times--but to even that family has come news at last which is not staled
    b...
  76. sham
    something that is a counterfeit; not what it seems to be
    Without our clothes and our pedestals we are poor things
    and much of a size; our dignities are not real, our pomps are shams.
  77. Melbourne
    the capital of Victoria state and 2nd largest Australian city; a financial and commercial center
    When those amazing words struck upon my ear in this
    Austrian village last Saturday, three hours after the disaster, I knew
    that it was already old news in London, Paris, Berlin, New York, San
    Francisco, Japan, China, Melbourne, Cape Town, Bombay, Madras,
    Calcutta, and that the entire globe with a single voice, was cursing
    the perpetrator of it.
  78. mild
    humble in spirit or manner
    When this
    madness is in a mild form it is harmless and the man passes for sane;
    but when it develops powerfully and takes possession of the man, it can
    make him cheat, rob, and kill; and when he has got his fortune and lost
    it again it can land him in the asylum or the suicide's coffin.
  79. tremendous
    extraordinarily large in extent or amount or power
    The more one thinks of the assassination, the more imposing and
    tremendous the event becomes.
  80. ludicrous
    inviting ridicule
    Oh, if it
    were not so tragic how ludicrous it would be!
  81. snuff
    inhale audibly through the nose
    Love
    is a madness; if thwarted it develops fast; it can grow to a frenzy
    of despair and make an otherwise sane and highly gifted prince, like
    Rudolph, throw away the crown of an empire and snuff out his own life.
  82. township
    an administrative division of a county
    Anything to get notoriety; anything to set the village, or the township,
    or the city, or the State, or the nation, or the planet shouting,
    "Look--there he goes--that is the man!"
  83. Bombay
    a city in western India just off the coast of the Arabian Sea; India's 2nd largest city (after Calcutta); has the only natural deep-water harbor in western India
    When those amazing words struck upon my ear in this
    Austrian village last Saturday, three hours after the disaster, I knew
    that it was already old news in London, Paris, Berlin, New York, San
    Francisco, Japan, China, Melbourne, Cape Town, Bombay, Madras,
    Calcutta, and that the entire globe with a single voice, was cursing
    the perpetrator of it.
  84. malady
    impairment of normal physiological function
    There are
    no healthy minds, and nothing saves any man but accident--the accident
    of not having his malady put to the supreme test.
  85. consume
    take in as food
    All the whole list of desires, predilections, aversions, ambitions,
    passions, cares, griefs, regrets, remorses, are incipient madness, and
    ready to grow, spread, and consume, when the occasion comes.
  86. Christendom
    the collective body of Christians throughout the world and history (found predominantly in Europe and the Americas and Australia)
    The
    oldest family of unchallenged descent in Christendom lives in Rome and
    traces its line back seventeen hundred years, but no member of it has
    been present in the earth when an empress was murdered, until now.
  87. bicycle
    a vehicle that has two wheels and is moved by foot pedals
    It is this madness
    for being noticed and talked about which has invented kingship and the
    thousand other dignities, and tricked them out with pretty and showy
    fineries; it has made kings pick one another's pockets, scramble for one
    another's crowns and estates, slaughter one another's subjects; it has
    raised up prize-fighters, and poets, and villages mayors, and little
    and big politicians, and big and little charity-founders, and bicycle
    champions, and banditti chiefs, and frontier de...
  88. thrill
    something that causes a sudden intense feeling
    For one reason,
    there was then not much of a world to electrify; it was a small world,
    as to known bulk, and it had rather a thin population, besides; and for
    another reason, the news traveled so slowly that its tremendous initial
    thrill wasted away, week by week and month by month, on the journey, and
    by the time it reached the remoter regions there was but little of it
    left.
  89. aversion
    a feeling of intense dislike
    All the whole list of desires, predilections, aversions, ambitions,
    passions, cares, griefs, regrets, remorses, are incipient madness, and
    ready to grow, spread, and consume, when the occasion comes.
  90. human race
    all of the living human inhabitants of the earth
    And it was within the privileges and powers of this
    sarcasm upon the human race to reach up--up--up--and strike from its far
    summit in the social skies the world's accepted ideal of Glory and Might
    and Splendor and Sacredness!
  91. thwart
    hinder or prevent, as an effort, plan, or desire
    Love
    is a madness; if thwarted it develops fast; it can grow to a frenzy
    of despair and make an otherwise sane and highly gifted prince, like
    Rudolph, throw away the crown of an empire and snuff out his own life.
  92. world
    the 3rd planet from the sun; the planet we live on
    It is an event which confers a curious distinction upon every individual
    now living in the world: he has stood alive and breathing in the
    presence of an event such as has not fallen within the experience of any
    traceable or untraceable ancestor of his for twenty centuries, and it
    is not likely to fall within the experience of any descendant of his for
    twenty more.
  93. obscurity
    the state of being indistinct due to lack of light
    Every
    child is pleased at being noticed; many intolerable children put in
    their whole time in distressing and idiotic effort to attract the
    attention of visitors; boys are always "showing off"; apparently all
    men and women are glad and grateful when they find that they have done
    a thing which has lifted them for a moment out of obscurity and caused
    wondering talk.
  94. sneak
    to go stealthily or furtively
    He is at the
    bottom of the human ladder, as the accepted estimates of degree and
    value go: a soiled and patched young loafer, without gifts, without
    talents, without education, without morals, without character, without
    any born charm or any acquired one that wins or beguiles or attracts;
    without a single grace of mind or heart or hand that any tramp or
    prostitute could envy him; an unfaithful private in the ranks, an
    incompetent stone-cutter, an inefficient lackey; in a word, a mangy,
    offen...
  95. throw away
    throw or cast away
    Love
    is a madness; if thwarted it develops fast; it can grow to a frenzy
    of despair and make an otherwise sane and highly gifted prince, like
    Rudolph, throw away the crown of an empire and snuff out his own life.
  96. develop
    progress or evolve through a process of natural growth
    When this
    madness is in a mild form it is harmless and the man passes for sane;
    but when it develops powerfully and takes possession of the man, it can
    make him cheat, rob, and kill; and when he has got his fortune and lost
    it again it can land him in the asylum or the suicide's coffin.
  97. insane
    afflicted with or characteristic of mental derangement
    And in five minutes' time, at no
    cost of brain, or labor, or genius this mangy Italian tramp has beaten
    them all, transcended them all, outstripped them all, for in time their
    names will perish; but by the friendly help of the insane newspapers and
    courts and kings and historians, his is safe and live and thunder in the
    world all down the ages as long as human speech shall endure!
  98. asylum
    a shelter from danger or hardship
    When this
    madness is in a mild form it is harmless and the man passes for sane;
    but when it develops powerfully and takes possession of the man, it can
    make him cheat, rob, and kill; and when he has got his fortune and lost
    it again it can land him in the asylum or the suicide's coffin.
  99. another
    an additional or different one
    For one reason,
    there was then not much of a world to electrify; it was a small world,
    as to known bulk, and it had rather a thin population, besides; and for
    another reason, the news traveled so slowly that its tremendous initial
    thrill wasted away, week by week and month by month, on the journey, and
    by the time it reached the remoter regions there was but little of it
    left.
  100. derive
    come from
    One of the commonest forms of madness is the desire to be noticed, the
    pleasure derived from being noticed.
  101. pomp
    cheap or pretentious or vain display
    Without our clothes and our pedestals we are poor things
    and much of a size; our dignities are not real, our pomps are shams.
  102. remorse
    a feeling of deep regret, usually for some misdeed
    All the whole list of desires, predilections, aversions, ambitions,
    passions, cares, griefs, regrets, remorses, are incipient madness, and
    ready to grow, spread, and consume, when the occasion comes.
  103. cutter
    a cutting implement; a tool for cutting
    He is at the
    bottom of the human ladder, as the accepted estimates of degree and
    value go: a soiled and patched young loafer, without gifts, without
    talents, without education, without morals, without character, without
    any born charm or any acquired one that wins or beguiles or attracts;
    without a single grace of mind or heart or hand that any tramp or
    prostitute could envy him; an unfaithful private in the ranks, an
    incompetent stone-cutter, an inefficient lackey; in a word, a mangy...
  104. gifted
    endowed with special talent or talents
    Love
    is a madness; if thwarted it develops fast; it can grow to a frenzy
    of despair and make an otherwise sane and highly gifted prince, like
    Rudolph, throw away the crown of an empire and snuff out his own life.
  105. irony
    incongruity between what might be expected and what occurs
    All the ironies are compacted in the answer.
  106. frenzy
    state of violent mental agitation
    Love
    is a madness; if thwarted it develops fast; it can grow to a frenzy
    of despair and make an otherwise sane and highly gifted prince, like
    Rudolph, throw away the crown of an empire and snuff out his own life.
  107. intolerable
    incapable of being put up with
    Every
    child is pleased at being noticed; many intolerable children put in
    their whole time in distressing and idiotic effort to attract the
    attention of visitors; boys are always "showing off"; apparently all
    men and women are glad and grateful when they find that they have done
    a thing which has lifted them for a moment out of obscurity and caused
    wondering talk.
  108. impose
    charge and collect payment
    The more one thinks of the assassination, the more imposing and
    tremendous the event becomes.
  109. simultaneously
    at the same instant
    Since the telegraph first began to stretch itself
    wider and wider about the earth, larger and increasingly larger areas of
    the world have, as time went on, received simultaneously the shock of
    a great calamity; but this is the first time in history that the entire
    surface of the globe has been swept in a single instant with the thrill
    of so gigantic an event.
  110. harmless
    not causing or capable of causing harm
    When this
    madness is in a mild form it is harmless and the man passes for sane;
    but when it develops powerfully and takes possession of the man, it can
    make him cheat, rob, and kill; and when he has got his fortune and lost
    it again it can land him in the asylum or the suicide's coffin.
  111. universal
    applicable to or common to all members of a group or set
    Perhaps it is not merely common,
    but universal.
  112. descendants
    all of the offspring of a given progenitor
    Many
    a time during these seventeen centuries members of that family have
    been startled with the news of extraordinary events--the destruction
    of cities, the fall of thrones, the murder of kings, the wreck of
    dynasties, the extinction of religions, the birth of new systems of
    government; and their descendants have been by to hear of it and talk
    about it when all these things were repeated once, twice, or a dozen
    times--but to even that family has come news at last which is not staled
    b...
  113. famine
    a severe shortage of food resulting in starvation and death
    The destruction of a city is a large
    event, but it is one which repeats itself several times in a thousand
    years; the destruction of a third part of a nation by plague and famine
    is a large event, but it has happened several times in history; the
    murder of a king is a large event, but it has been frequent.
  114. traveled
    familiar with many parts of the world
    For one reason,
    there was then not much of a world to electrify; it was a small world,
    as to known bulk, and it had rather a thin population, besides; and for
    another reason, the news traveled so slowly that its tremendous initial
    thrill wasted away, week by week and month by month, on the journey, and
    by the time it reached the remoter regions there was but little of it
    left.
  115. attract
    exert a force on
    He is at the
    bottom of the human ladder, as the accepted estimates of degree and
    value go: a soiled and patched young loafer, without gifts, without
    talents, without education, without morals, without character, without
    any born charm or any acquired one that wins or beguiles or attracts;
    without a single grace of mind or heart or hand that any tramp or
    prostitute could envy him; an unfaithful private in the ranks, an
    incompetent stone-cutter, an inefficient lackey; in a word, a mangy...
  116. imposing
    befitting an important, distinguished, or powerful person
    The more one thinks of the assassination, the more imposing and
    tremendous the event becomes.
  117. dignity
    the quality of being worthy of esteem or respect
    Without our clothes and our pedestals we are poor things
    and much of a size; our dignities are not real, our pomps are shams.
  118. splendor
    the quality of being magnificent or grand
    And it was within the privileges and powers of this
    sarcasm upon the human race to reach up--up--up--and strike from its far
    summit in the social skies the world's accepted ideal of Glory and Might
    and Splendor and Sacredness!
  119. accident
    an unfortunate mishap
    There are
    no healthy minds, and nothing saves any man but accident--the accident
    of not having his malady put to the supreme test.
  120. tidings
    information about recent and important events
    But the world is enormous
    now, and prodigiously populated--that is one change; and another is the
    lightning swiftness of the flight of tidings, good and bad.
  121. talk about
    to consider or examine in speech or writing
    Many
    a time during these seventeen centuries members of that family have
    been startled with the news of extraordinary events--the destruction
    of cities, the fall of thrones, the murder of kings, the wreck of
    dynasties, the extinction of religions, the birth of new systems of
    government; and their descendants have been by to hear of it and talk
    about     it when all these things were repeated once, twice, or a dozen
    times--but to even that family has come news at last which is not staled
    b...
  122. dynasty
    a sequence of powerful leaders in the same family
    Many
    a time during these seventeen centuries members of that family have
    been startled with the news of extraordinary events--the destruction
    of cities, the fall of thrones, the murder of kings, the wreck of
    dynasties, the extinction of religions, the birth of new systems of
    government; and their descendants have been by to hear of it and talk
    about it when all these things were repeated once, twice, or a dozen
    times--but to even that family has come news at last which is not staled
    b...
  123. mad
    roused to anger
    And now we get realized to us once more another thing which we often
    forget--or try to: that no man has a wholly undiseased mind; that in
    one way or another all men are mad.
  124. amazing
    inspiring awe or admiration or wonder
    When those amazing words struck upon my ear in this
    Austrian village last Saturday, three hours after the disaster, I knew
    that it was already old news in London, Paris, Berlin, New York, San
    Francisco, Japan, China, Melbourne, Cape Town, Bombay, Madras,
    Calcutta, and that the entire globe with a single voice, was cursing
    the perpetrator of it.
  125. morals
    motivation based on ideas of right and wrong
    He is at the
    bottom of the human ladder, as the accepted estimates of degree and
    value go: a soiled and patched young loafer, without gifts, without
    talents, without education, without morals, without character, without
    any born charm or any acquired one that wins or beguiles or attracts;
    without a single grace of mind or heart or hand that any tramp or
    prostitute could envy him; an unfaithful private in the ranks, an
    incompetent stone-cutter, an inefficient lackey; in a word, a mangy...
  126. timid
    showing fear and lack of courage
    He is at the
    bottom of the human ladder, as the accepted estimates of degree and
    value go: a soiled and patched young loafer, without gifts, without
    talents, without education, without morals, without character, without
    any born charm or any acquired one that wins or beguiles or attracts;
    without a single grace of mind or heart or hand that any tramp or
    prostitute could envy him; an unfaithful private in the ranks, an
    incompetent stone-cutter, an inefficient lackey; in a word, a mangy,
    offen...
  127. for one
    as a particular one of several possibilities
    For one reason,
    there was then not much of a world to electrify; it was a small world,
    as to known bulk, and it had rather a thin population, besides; and for
    another reason, the news traveled so slowly that its tremendous initial
    thrill wasted away, week by week and month by month, on the journey, and
    by the time it reached the remoter regions there was but little of it
    left.
  128. village
    a settlement smaller than a town
    When those amazing words struck upon my ear in this
    Austrian village last Saturday, three hours after the disaster, I knew
    that it was already old news in London, Paris, Berlin, New York, San
    Francisco, Japan, China, Melbourne, Cape Town, Bombay, Madras,
    Calcutta, and that the entire globe with a single voice, was cursing
    the perpetrator of it.
  129. compact
    closely and firmly united or packed together
    All the ironies are compacted in the answer.
  130. coffin
    a box in which a corpse is buried
    When this
    madness is in a mild form it is harmless and the man passes for sane;
    but when it develops powerfully and takes possession of the man, it can
    make him cheat, rob, and kill; and when he has got his fortune and lost
    it again it can land him in the asylum or the suicide's coffin.
  131. cheat
    defeat through trickery or deceit
    When this
    madness is in a mild form it is harmless and the man passes for sane;
    but when it develops powerfully and takes possession of the man, it can
    make him cheat, rob, and kill; and when he has got his fortune and lost
    it again it can land him in the asylum or the suicide's coffin.
  132. human
    a person; a hominid with a large brain and articulate speech
    He is at the
    bottom of the human ladder, as the accepted estimates of degree and
    value go: a soiled and patched young loafer, without gifts, without
    talents, without education, without morals, without character, without
    any born charm or any acquired one that wins or beguiles or attracts;
    without a single grace of mind or heart or hand that any tramp or
    prostitute could envy him; an unfaithful private in the ranks, an
    incompetent stone-cutter, an inefficient lackey; in a word, a mangy...
  133. gigantic
    exceedingly large or extensive
    Since the telegraph first began to stretch itself
    wider and wider about the earth, larger and increasingly larger areas of
    the world have, as time went on, received simultaneously the shock of
    a great calamity; but this is the first time in history that the entire
    surface of the globe has been swept in a single instant with the thrill
    of so gigantic an event.
  134. initial
    occurring at the beginning
    For one reason,
    there was then not much of a world to electrify; it was a small world,
    as to known bulk, and it had rather a thin population, besides; and for
    another reason, the news traveled so slowly that its tremendous initial
    thrill wasted away, week by week and month by month, on the journey, and
    by the time it reached the remoter regions there was but little of it
    left.
  135. increasingly
    advancing in amount or intensity
    Since the telegraph first began to stretch itself
    wider and wider about the earth, larger and increasingly larger areas of
    the world have, as time went on, received simultaneously the shock of
    a great calamity; but this is the first time in history that the entire
    surface of the globe has been swept in a single instant with the thrill
    of so gigantic an event.
  136. larger
    large or big relative to something else
    Since the telegraph first began to stretch itself
    wider and wider about the earth, larger and increasingly larger areas of
    the world have, as time went on, received simultaneously the shock of
    a great calamity; but this is the first time in history that the entire
    surface of the globe has been swept in a single instant with the thrill
    of so gigantic an event.
  137. lose it
    lose control of one's emotions
    When this
    madness is in a mild form it is harmless and the man passes for sane;
    but when it develops powerfully and takes possession of the man, it can
    make him cheat, rob, and kill; and when he has got his fortune and lost
    it     again it can land him in the asylum or the suicide's coffin.
  138. bulk
    the property possessed by a large mass
    For one reason,
    there was then not much of a world to electrify; it was a small world,
    as to known bulk, and it had rather a thin population, besides; and for
    another reason, the news traveled so slowly that its tremendous initial
    thrill wasted away, week by week and month by month, on the journey, and
    by the time it reached the remoter regions there was but little of it
    left.
  139. single
    existing alone or consisting of one entity or part or aspect or individual
    When those amazing words struck upon my ear in this
    Austrian village last Saturday, three hours after the disaster, I knew
    that it was already old news in London, Paris, Berlin, New York, San
    Francisco, Japan, China, Melbourne, Cape Town, Bombay, Madras,
    Calcutta, and that the entire globe with a single voice, was cursing
    the perpetrator of it.
  140. accepted
    generally approved or compelling recognition
    He is at the
    bottom of the human ladder, as the accepted estimates of degree and
    value go: a soiled and patched young loafer, without gifts, without
    talents, without education, without morals, without character, without
    any born charm or any acquired one that wins or beguiles or attracts;
    without a single grace of mind or heart or hand that any tramp or
    prostitute could envy him; an unfaithful private in the ranks, an
    incompetent stone-cutter, an inefficient lackey; in a word, a mangy...
  141. time
    the continuum of experience in which events pass to the past
    The destruction of a city is a large
    event, but it is one which repeats itself several times in a thousand
    years; the destruction of a third part of a nation by plague and famine
    is a large event, but it has happened several times in history; the
    murder of a king is a large event, but it has been frequent.
  142. calamity
    an event resulting in great loss and misfortune
    Since the telegraph first began to stretch itself
    wider and wider about the earth, larger and increasingly larger areas of
    the world have, as time went on, received simultaneously the shock of
    a great calamity; but this is the first time in history that the entire
    surface of the globe has been swept in a single instant with the thrill
    of so gigantic an event.
  143. plague
    any large-scale calamity
    The destruction of a city is a large
    event, but it is one which repeats itself several times in a thousand
    years; the destruction of a third part of a nation by plague and famine
    is a large event, but it has happened several times in history; the
    murder of a king is a large event, but it has been frequent.
  144. stately
    impressive in appearance
    At
    our best and stateliest we are not suns, as we pretended, and teach, and
    believe, but only candles; and any bummer can blow us out.
  145. acquire
    come into the possession of something concrete or abstract
    He is at the
    bottom of the human ladder, as the accepted estimates of degree and
    value go: a soiled and patched young loafer, without gifts, without
    talents, without education, without morals, without character, without
    any born charm or any acquired one that wins or beguiles or attracts;
    without a single grace of mind or heart or hand that any tramp or
    prostitute could envy him; an unfaithful private in the ranks, an
    incompetent stone-cutter, an inefficient lackey; in a word, a mangy...
  146. tragic
    very sad, especially involving grief or death or destruction
    Oh, if it
    were not so tragic how ludicrous it would be!
  147. wasted
    serving no useful purpose; having no excuse for being
    For one reason,
    there was then not much of a world to electrify; it was a small world,
    as to known bulk, and it had rather a thin population, besides; and for
    another reason, the news traveled so slowly that its tremendous initial
    thrill wasted away, week by week and month by month, on the journey, and
    by the time it reached the remoter regions there was but little of it
    left.
  148. suicide
    the act of killing yourself
    When this
    madness is in a mild form it is harmless and the man passes for sane;
    but when it develops powerfully and takes possession of the man, it can
    make him cheat, rob, and kill; and when he has got his fortune and lost
    it again it can land him in the asylum or the suicide's coffin.
  149. Town
    United States architect who was noted for his design and construction of truss bridges (1784-1844)
    When those amazing words struck upon my ear in this
    Austrian village last Saturday, three hours after the disaster, I knew
    that it was already old news in London, Paris, Berlin, New York, San
    Francisco, Japan, China, Melbourne, Cape Town, Bombay, Madras,
    Calcutta, and that the entire globe with a single voice, was cursing
    the perpetrator of it.
  150. vulgar
    of or associated with the great masses of people
    He is at the
    bottom of the human ladder, as the accepted estimates of degree and
    value go: a soiled and patched young loafer, without gifts, without
    talents, without education, without morals, without character, without
    any born charm or any acquired one that wins or beguiles or attracts;
    without a single grace of mind or heart or hand that any tramp or
    prostitute could envy him; an unfaithful private in the ranks, an
    incompetent stone-cutter, an inefficient lackey; in a word, a mangy,
    offen...
  151. king
    a male sovereign; ruler of a kingdom
    The destruction of a city is a large
    event, but it is one which repeats itself several times in a thousand
    years; the destruction of a third part of a nation by plague and famine
    is a large event, but it has happened several times in history; the
    murder of a king is a large event, but it has been frequent.
  152. fighter
    someone who fights (or is fighting)
    It is this madness
    for being noticed and talked about which has invented kingship and the
    thousand other dignities, and tricked them out with pretty and showy
    fineries; it has made kings pick one another's pockets, scramble for one
    another's crowns and estates, slaughter one another's subjects; it has
    raised up prize-fighters, and poets, and villages mayors, and little
    and big politicians, and big and little charity-founders, and bicycle
    champions, and banditti chiefs, and frontier de...
  153. entire
    constituting the full quantity or extent; complete
    When those amazing words struck upon my ear in this
    Austrian village last Saturday, three hours after the disaster, I knew
    that it was already old news in London, Paris, Berlin, New York, San
    Francisco, Japan, China, Melbourne, Cape Town, Bombay, Madras,
    Calcutta, and that the entire globe with a single voice, was cursing
    the perpetrator of it.
  154. pretended
    adopted in order to deceive
    At
    our best and stateliest we are not suns, as we pretended, and teach, and
    believe, but only candles; and any bummer can blow us out.
  155. ladder
    steps consisting of two parallel members connected by rungs
    He is at the
    bottom of the human ladder, as the accepted estimates of degree and
    value go: a soiled and patched young loafer, without gifts, without
    talents, without education, without morals, without character, without
    any born charm or any acquired one that wins or beguiles or attracts;
    without a single grace of mind or heart or hand that any tramp or
    prostitute could envy him; an unfaithful private in the ranks, an
    incompetent stone-cutter, an inefficient lackey; in a word, a mangy...
  156. crown
    an ornamental jeweled headdress signifying sovereignty
    Love
    is a madness; if thwarted it develops fast; it can grow to a frenzy
    of despair and make an otherwise sane and highly gifted prince, like
    Rudolph, throw away the crown of an empire and snuff out his own life.
  157. shouting
    uttering a loud inarticulate cry as of pain or excitement
    Anything to get notoriety; anything to set the village, or the township,
    or the city, or the State, or the nation, or the planet shouting,
    "Look--there he goes--that is the man!"
  158. slaughter
    the killing of animals, as for food
    It is this madness
    for being noticed and talked about which has invented kingship and the
    thousand other dignities, and tricked them out with pretty and showy
    fineries; it has made kings pick one another's pockets, scramble for one
    another's crowns and estates, slaughter one another's subjects; it has
    raised up prize-fighters, and poets, and villages mayors, and little
    and big politicians, and big and little charity-founders, and bicycle
    champions, and banditti chiefs, and frontier de...
  159. one
    smallest whole number or a numeral representing this number
    The more one thinks of the assassination, the more imposing and
    tremendous the event becomes.
  160. offensive
    unpleasant or disgusting especially to the senses
    He is at the
    bottom of the human ladder, as the accepted estimates of degree and
    value go: a soiled and patched young loafer, without gifts, without
    talents, without education, without morals, without character, without
    any born charm or any acquired one that wins or beguiles or attracts;
    without a single grace of mind or heart or hand that any tramp or
    prostitute could envy him; an unfaithful private in the ranks, an
    incompetent stone-cutter, an inefficient lackey; in a word, a mangy,
    of...
  161. descent
    a movement downward
    The
    oldest family of unchallenged descent in Christendom lives in Rome and
    traces its line back seventeen hundred years, but no member of it has
    been present in the earth when an empress was murdered, until now.
  162. gross
    lacking fine distinctions or detail
    He is at the
    bottom of the human ladder, as the accepted estimates of degree and
    value go: a soiled and patched young loafer, without gifts, without
    talents, without education, without morals, without character, without
    any born charm or any acquired one that wins or beguiles or attracts;
    without a single grace of mind or heart or hand that any tramp or
    prostitute could envy him; an unfaithful private in the ranks, an
    incompetent stone-cutter, an inefficient lackey; in a word, a mangy,
    offen...
  163. gift
    something acquired without compensation
    He is at the
    bottom of the human ladder, as the accepted estimates of degree and
    value go: a soiled and patched young loafer, without gifts, without
    talents, without education, without morals, without character, without
    any born charm or any acquired one that wins or beguiles or attracts;
    without a single grace of mind or heart or hand that any tramp or
    prostitute could envy him; an unfaithful private in the ranks, an
    incompetent stone-cutter, an inefficient lackey; in a word, a mangy...
  164. telegraph
    apparatus used to communicate at a distance over a wire
    Since the telegraph first began to stretch itself
    wider and wider about the earth, larger and increasingly larger areas of
    the world have, as time went on, received simultaneously the shock of
    a great calamity; but this is the first time in history that the entire
    surface of the globe has been swept in a single instant with the thrill
    of so gigantic an event.
  165. Austrian
    a native or inhabitant of Austria
    When those amazing words struck upon my ear in this
    Austrian village last Saturday, three hours after the disaster, I knew
    that it was already old news in London, Paris, Berlin, New York, San
    Francisco, Japan, China, Melbourne, Cape Town, Bombay, Madras,
    Calcutta, and that the entire globe with a single voice, was cursing
    the perpetrator of it.
  166. planet
    a celestial body that revolves around the sun
    Anything to get notoriety; anything to set the village, or the township,
    or the city, or the State, or the nation, or the planet shouting,
    "Look--there he goes--that is the man!"
  167. large
    above average in size or number or quantity or magnitude
    The destruction of a city is a large
    event, but it is one which repeats itself several times in a thousand
    years; the destruction of a third part of a nation by plague and famine
    is a large event, but it has happened several times in history; the
    murder of a king is a large event, but it has been frequent.
  168. breathing
    the bodily process of inhalation and exhalation
    It is an event which confers a curious distinction upon every individual
    now living in the world: he has stood alive and breathing in the
    presence of an event such as has not fallen within the experience of any
    traceable or untraceable ancestor of his for twenty centuries, and it
    is not likely to fall within the experience of any descendant of his for
    twenty more.
  169. envy
    a desire to have something that is possessed by another
    He is at the
    bottom of the human ladder, as the accepted estimates of degree and
    value go: a soiled and patched young loafer, without gifts, without
    talents, without education, without morals, without character, without
    any born charm or any acquired one that wins or beguiles or attracts;
    without a single grace of mind or heart or hand that any tramp or
    prostitute could envy him; an unfaithful private in the ranks, an
    incompetent stone-cutter, an inefficient lackey; in a word, a mangy...
  170. confer
    present
    It is an event which confers a curious distinction upon every individual
    now living in the world: he has stood alive and breathing in the
    presence of an event such as has not fallen within the experience of any
    traceable or untraceable ancestor of his for twenty centuries, and it
    is not likely to fall within the experience of any descendant of his for
    twenty more.
  171. founder
    a person who establishes some institution
    It is this madness
    for being noticed and talked about which has invented kingship and the
    thousand other dignities, and tricked them out with pretty and showy
    fineries; it has made kings pick one another's pockets, scramble for one
    another's crowns and estates, slaughter one another's subjects; it has
    raised up prize-fighters, and poets, and villages mayors, and little
    and big politicians, and big and little charity-founders, and bicycle
    champions, and banditti chiefs, and frontier de...
  172. common
    having no special distinction or quality
    One of the commonest forms of madness is the desire to be noticed, the
    pleasure derived from being noticed.
  173. history
    a record or narrative description of past events
    The destruction of a city is a large
    event, but it is one which repeats itself several times in a thousand
    years; the destruction of a third part of a nation by plague and famine
    is a large event, but it has happened several times in history; the
    murder of a king is a large event, but it has been frequent.
  174. lightning
    flash of light from an electric discharge in the atmosphere
    But the world is enormous
    now, and prodigiously populated--that is one change; and another is the
    lightning swiftness of the flight of tidings, good and bad.
  175. hunger
    a physiological need for food
    This common madness can develop, by nurture, into a
    hunger for notoriety in one, for fame in another.
  176. ancestor
    someone from whom you are descended
    It is an event which confers a curious distinction upon every individual
    now living in the world: he has stood alive and breathing in the
    presence of an event such as has not fallen within the experience of any
    traceable or untraceable ancestor of his for twenty centuries, and it
    is not likely to fall within the experience of any descendant of his for
    twenty more.
  177. endure
    undergo or be subjected to
    And in five minutes' time, at no
    cost of brain, or labor, or genius this mangy Italian tramp has beaten
    them all, transcended them all, outstripped them all, for in time their
    names will perish; but by the friendly help of the insane newspapers and
    courts and kings and historians, his is safe and live and thunder in the
    world all down the ages as long as human speech shall endure!
  178. invent
    come up with after a mental effort
    It is this madness
    for being noticed and talked about which has invented kingship and the
    thousand other dignities, and tricked them out with pretty and showy
    fineries; it has made kings pick one another's pockets, scramble for one
    another's crowns and estates, slaughter one another's subjects; it has
    raised up prize-fighters, and poets, and villages mayors, and little
    and big politicians, and big and little charity-founders, and bicycle
    champions, and banditti chiefs, and frontier de...
  179. derived
    formed or developed from something else; not original
    One of the commonest forms of madness is the desire to be noticed, the
    pleasure derived from being noticed.
  180. healthy
    free from infirmity or disease
    There are
    no healthy minds, and nothing saves any man but accident--the accident
    of not having his malady put to the supreme test.
  181. curse
    an appeal to some supernatural power to inflict evil
    When those amazing words struck upon my ear in this
    Austrian village last Saturday, three hours after the disaster, I knew
    that it was already old news in London, Paris, Berlin, New York, San
    Francisco, Japan, China, Melbourne, Cape Town, Bombay, Madras,
    Calcutta, and that the entire globe with a single voice, was cursing
    the perpetrator of it.
  182. historian
    a person who is an authority on the past and who studies it
    And in five minutes' time, at no
    cost of brain, or labor, or genius this mangy Italian tramp has beaten
    them all, transcended them all, outstripped them all, for in time their
    names will perish; but by the friendly help of the insane newspapers and
    courts and kings and historians, his is safe and live and thunder in the
    world all down the ages as long as human speech shall endure!
  183. startled
    excited by sudden surprise or alarm and making a quick involuntary movement
    Many
    a time during these seventeen centuries members of that family have
    been startled with the news of extraordinary events--the destruction
    of cities, the fall of thrones, the murder of kings, the wreck of
    dynasties, the extinction of religions, the birth of new systems of
    government; and their descendants have been by to hear of it and talk
    about it when all these things were repeated once, twice, or a dozen
    times--but to even that family has come news at last which is not staled
    b...
  184. patch
    a small contrasting part of something
    He is at the
    bottom of the human ladder, as the accepted estimates of degree and
    value go: a soiled and patched young loafer, without gifts, without
    talents, without education, without morals, without character, without
    any born charm or any acquired one that wins or beguiles or attracts;
    without a single grace of mind or heart or hand that any tramp or
    prostitute could envy him; an unfaithful private in the ranks, an
    incompetent stone-cutter, an inefficient lackey; in a word, a mangy...
  185. wondering
    showing curiosity
    Every
    child is pleased at being noticed; many intolerable children put in
    their whole time in distressing and idiotic effort to attract the
    attention of visitors; boys are always "showing off"; apparently all
    men and women are glad and grateful when they find that they have done
    a thing which has lifted them for a moment out of obscurity and caused
    wondering talk.
  186. any
    to some extent or degree
    It is an event which confers a curious distinction upon every individual
    now living in the world: he has stood alive and breathing in the
    presence of an event such as has not fallen within the experience of any
    traceable or untraceable ancestor of his for twenty centuries, and it
    is not likely to fall within the experience of any descendant of his for
    twenty more.
  187. grateful
    feeling or showing thankfulness
    Every
    child is pleased at being noticed; many intolerable children put in
    their whole time in distressing and idiotic effort to attract the
    attention of visitors; boys are always "showing off"; apparently all
    men and women are glad and grateful when they find that they have done
    a thing which has lifted them for a moment out of obscurity and caused
    wondering talk.
  188. disaster
    an event resulting in great loss and misfortune
    When those amazing words struck upon my ear in this
    Austrian village last Saturday, three hours after the disaster, I knew
    that it was already old news in London, Paris, Berlin, New York, San
    Francisco, Japan, China, Melbourne, Cape Town, Bombay, Madras,
    Calcutta, and that the entire globe with a single voice, was cursing
    the perpetrator of it.
  189. spectacle
    something or someone seen, especially a notable sight
    And who is the miracle-worker who has furnished to the world this
    spectacle?
  190. San Francisco
    a port in western California near the Golden Gate that is one of the major industrial and transportation centers; it has one of the world's finest harbors; site of the Golden Gate Bridge
    When those amazing words struck upon my ear in this
    Austrian village last Saturday, three hours after the disaster, I knew
    that it was already old news in London, Paris, Berlin, New York, San
    Francisco    , Japan, China, Melbourne, Cape Town, Bombay, Madras,
    Calcutta, and that the entire globe with a single voice, was cursing
    the perpetrator of it.
  191. thousand
    the cardinal number that is the product of 10 and 100
    The destruction of a city is a large
    event, but it is one which repeats itself several times in a thousand
    years; the destruction of a third part of a nation by plague and famine
    is a large event, but it has happened several times in history; the
    murder of a king is a large event, but it has been frequent.
  192. wreck
    something or someone that has suffered ruin or dilapidation
    Many
    a time during these seventeen centuries members of that family have
    been startled with the news of extraordinary events--the destruction
    of cities, the fall of thrones, the murder of kings, the wreck of
    dynasties, the extinction of religions, the birth of new systems of
    government; and their descendants have been by to hear of it and talk
    about it when all these things were repeated once, twice, or a dozen
    times--but to even that family has come news at last which is not staled
    b...
  193. frontier
    a wilderness at the edge of a settled area of a country
    It is this madness
    for being noticed and talked about which has invented kingship and the
    thousand other dignities, and tricked them out with pretty and showy
    fineries; it has made kings pick one another's pockets, scramble for one
    another's crowns and estates, slaughter one another's subjects; it has
    raised up prize-fighters, and poets, and villages mayors, and little
    and big politicians, and big and little charity-founders, and bicycle
    champions, and banditti chiefs, and frontier de...
  194. repeat
    say or state again
    The destruction of a city is a large
    event, but it is one which repeats itself several times in a thousand
    years; the destruction of a third part of a nation by plague and famine
    is a large event, but it has happened several times in history; the
    murder of a king is a large event, but it has been frequent.
  195. summit
    the top or extreme point of something
    And it was within the privileges and powers of this
    sarcasm upon the human race to reach up--up--up--and strike from its far
    summit in the social skies the world's accepted ideal of Glory and Might
    and Splendor and Sacredness!
  196. champion
    someone who has won first place in a competition
    It is this madness
    for being noticed and talked about which has invented kingship and the
    thousand other dignities, and tricked them out with pretty and showy
    fineries; it has made kings pick one another's pockets, scramble for one
    another's crowns and estates, slaughter one another's subjects; it has
    raised up prize-fighters, and poets, and villages mayors, and little
    and big politicians, and big and little charity-founders, and bicycle
    champions, and banditti chiefs, and frontier de...
  197. perish
    pass from physical life
    And in five minutes' time, at no
    cost of brain, or labor, or genius this mangy Italian tramp has beaten
    them all, transcended them all, outstripped them all, for in time their
    names will perish; but by the friendly help of the insane newspapers and
    courts and kings and historians, his is safe and live and thunder in the
    world all down the ages as long as human speech shall endure!
  198. estimate
    judge tentatively
    He is at the
    bottom of the human ladder, as the accepted estimates of degree and
    value go: a soiled and patched young loafer, without gifts, without
    talents, without education, without morals, without character, without
    any born charm or any acquired one that wins or beguiles or attracts;
    without a single grace of mind or heart or hand that any tramp or
    prostitute could envy him; an unfaithful private in the ranks, an
    incompetent stone-cutter, an inefficient lackey; in a word, a mangy...
  199. Berlin
    capital of Germany located in eastern Germany
    When those amazing words struck upon my ear in this
    Austrian village last Saturday, three hours after the disaster, I knew
    that it was already old news in London, Paris, Berlin, New York, San
    Francisco, Japan, China, Melbourne, Cape Town, Bombay, Madras,
    Calcutta, and that the entire globe with a single voice, was cursing
    the perpetrator of it.
  200. miracle
    a marvelous event brought about by a divine being
    And who is the miracle-worker who has furnished to the world this
    spectacle?
  201. within
    on the inside
    It is an event which confers a curious distinction upon every individual
    now living in the world: he has stood alive and breathing in the
    presence of an event such as has not fallen within the experience of any
    traceable or untraceable ancestor of his for twenty centuries, and it
    is not likely to fall within the experience of any descendant of his for
    twenty more.
  202. good and
    completely or thoroughly
    But the world is enormous
    now, and prodigiously populated--that is one change; and another is the
    lightning swiftness of the flight of tidings, good and bad.
  203. but
    and nothing more
    The destruction of a city is a large
    event, but it is one which repeats itself several times in a thousand
    years; the destruction of a third part of a nation by plague and famine
    is a large event, but it has happened several times in history; the
    murder of a king is a large event, but it has been frequent.
  204. realize
    be fully aware or cognizant of
    It realizes to us what sorry shows and
    shadows we are.
  205. beaten
    formed or made thin by hammering
    And in five minutes' time, at no
    cost of brain, or labor, or genius this mangy Italian tramp has beaten
    them all, transcended them all, outstripped them all, for in time their
    names will perish; but by the friendly help of the insane newspapers and
    courts and kings and historians, his is safe and live and thunder in the
    world all down the ages as long as human speech shall endure!
  206. candle
    stick of wax with a wick in the middle
    At
    our best and stateliest we are not suns, as we pretended, and teach, and
    believe, but only candles; and any bummer can blow us out.
  207. charity
    an institution set up to provide help to the needy
    It is this madness
    for being noticed and talked about which has invented kingship and the
    thousand other dignities, and tricked them out with pretty and showy
    fineries; it has made kings pick one another's pockets, scramble for one
    another's crowns and estates, slaughter one another's subjects; it has
    raised up prize-fighters, and poets, and villages mayors, and little
    and big politicians, and big and little charity-founders, and bicycle
    champions, and banditti chiefs, and frontier de...
  208. Caesar
    conqueror of Gaul and master of Italy (100-44 BC)
    The murder of
    an empress then--even the assassination of Caesar himself--could not
    electrify the world as this murder has electrified it.
  209. times
    a more or less definite period of time now or previously present
    The destruction of a city is a large
    event, but it is one which repeats itself several times in a thousand
    years; the destruction of a third part of a nation by plague and famine
    is a large event, but it has happened several times in history; the
    murder of a king is a large event, but it has been frequent.
  210. experience
    the content of observation or participation in an event
    It is an event which confers a curious distinction upon every individual
    now living in the world: he has stood alive and breathing in the
    presence of an event such as has not fallen within the experience of any
    traceable or untraceable ancestor of his for twenty centuries, and it
    is not likely to fall within the experience of any descendant of his for
    twenty more.
  211. realized
    successfully completed or brought to an end
    And now we get realized to us once more another thing which we often
    forget--or try to: that no man has a wholly undiseased mind; that in
    one way or another all men are mad.
  212. politician
    a leader engaged in civil administration
    It is this madness
    for being noticed and talked about which has invented kingship and the
    thousand other dignities, and tricked them out with pretty and showy
    fineries; it has made kings pick one another's pockets, scramble for one
    another's crowns and estates, slaughter one another's subjects; it has
    raised up prize-fighters, and poets, and villages mayors, and little
    and big politicians, and big and little charity-founders, and bicycle
    champions, and banditti chiefs, and frontier de...
  213. Saturday
    the seventh and last day of the week
    When those amazing words struck upon my ear in this
    Austrian village last Saturday, three hours after the disaster, I knew
    that it was already old news in London, Paris, Berlin, New York, San
    Francisco, Japan, China, Melbourne, Cape Town, Bombay, Madras,
    Calcutta, and that the entire globe with a single voice, was cursing
    the perpetrator of it.
  214. furnished
    provided with whatever is necessary for a purpose
    And who is the miracle-worker who has furnished to the world this
    spectacle?
  215. accept
    receive willingly something given or offered
    He is at the
    bottom of the human ladder, as the accepted estimates of degree and
    value go: a soiled and patched young loafer, without gifts, without
    talents, without education, without morals, without character, without
    any born charm or any acquired one that wins or beguiles or attracts;
    without a single grace of mind or heart or hand that any tramp or
    prostitute could envy him; an unfaithful private in the ranks, an
    incompetent stone-cutter, an inefficient lackey; in a word, a mangy...
  216. rob
    take
    When this
    madness is in a mild form it is harmless and the man passes for sane;
    but when it develops powerfully and takes possession of the man, it can
    make him cheat, rob, and kill; and when he has got his fortune and lost
    it again it can land him in the asylum or the suicide's coffin.
  217. reach
    move forward or upward in order to touch
    Many
    a time during these seventeen centuries members of that family have
    been startled with the news of extraordinary events--the destruction
    of cities, the fall of thrones, the murder of kings, the wreck of
    dynasties, the extinction of religions, the birth of new systems of
    government; and their descendants have been by to hear of it and talk
    about it when all these things were repeated once, twice, or a dozen
    times--but to even that family has come news at last which is not staled
    by use, ...
  218. family
    a group of people related to one another
    The
    oldest family of unchallenged descent in Christendom lives in Rome and
    traces its line back seventeen hundred years, but no member of it has
    been present in the earth when an empress was murdered, until now.
  219. acquired
    gotten through environmental forces
    He is at the
    bottom of the human ladder, as the accepted estimates of degree and
    value go: a soiled and patched young loafer, without gifts, without
    talents, without education, without morals, without character, without
    any born charm or any acquired one that wins or beguiles or attracts;
    without a single grace of mind or heart or hand that any tramp or
    prostitute could envy him; an unfaithful private in the ranks, an
    incompetent stone-cutter, an inefficient lackey; in a word, a mangy...
  220. cape
    a sleeveless garment worn over the shoulders
    When those amazing words struck upon my ear in this
    Austrian village last Saturday, three hours after the disaster, I knew
    that it was already old news in London, Paris, Berlin, New York, San
    Francisco, Japan, China, Melbourne, Cape Town, Bombay, Madras,
    Calcutta, and that the entire globe with a single voice, was cursing
    the perpetrator of it.
  221. enormous
    extraordinarily large in size or extent or degree
    But the world is enormous
    now, and prodigiously populated--that is one change; and another is the
    lightning swiftness of the flight of tidings, good and bad.
  222. all
    entirely or completely
    The murder of an empress is the largest of all events.
  223. have got
    have or possess, either in a concrete or an abstract sense
    When this
    madness is in a mild form it is harmless and the man passes for sane;
    but when it develops powerfully and takes possession of the man, it can
    make him cheat, rob, and kill; and when he has got his fortune and lost
    it again it can land him in the asylum or the suicide's coffin.
  224. thing
    a separate and self-contained entity
    Many
    a time during these seventeen centuries members of that family have
    been startled with the news of extraordinary events--the destruction
    of cities, the fall of thrones, the murder of kings, the wreck of
    dynasties, the extinction of religions, the birth of new systems of
    government; and their descendants have been by to hear of it and talk
    about it when all these things were repeated once, twice, or a dozen
    times--but to even that family has come news at last which is not staled
    b...
  225. properly
    in the right manner
    It was no longer a fresh event, it was a thing of the far past;
    it was not properly news, it was history.
  226. desire
    the feeling that accompanies an unsatisfied state
    All the whole list of desires, predilections, aversions, ambitions,
    passions, cares, griefs, regrets, remorses, are incipient madness, and
    ready to grow, spread, and consume, when the occasion comes.
  227. thunder
    a booming or crashing noise along the path of lightning
    And in five minutes' time, at no
    cost of brain, or labor, or genius this mangy Italian tramp has beaten
    them all, transcended them all, outstripped them all, for in time their
    names will perish; but by the friendly help of the insane newspapers and
    courts and kings and historians, his is safe and live and thunder in the
    world all down the ages as long as human speech shall endure!
  228. empire
    the domain ruled by a single authoritative sovereign
    Love
    is a madness; if thwarted it develops fast; it can grow to a frenzy
    of despair and make an otherwise sane and highly gifted prince, like
    Rudolph, throw away the crown of an empire and snuff out his own life.
  229. doubtless
    certainly; without question
    In its mildest form it doubtless is universal.
  230. mayor
    the head of a city government
    It is this madness
    for being noticed and talked about which has invented kingship and the
    thousand other dignities, and tricked them out with pretty and showy
    fineries; it has made kings pick one another's pockets, scramble for one
    another's crowns and estates, slaughter one another's subjects; it has
    raised up prize-fighters, and poets, and villages mayors, and little
    and big politicians, and big and little charity-founders, and bicycle
    champions, and banditti chiefs, and frontier de...
  231. privilege
    a special advantage or benefit not enjoyed by all
    And it was within the privileges and powers of this
    sarcasm upon the human race to reach up--up--up--and strike from its far
    summit in the social skies the world's accepted ideal of Glory and Might
    and Splendor and Sacredness!
  232. distinction
    a discrimination between things as different
    It is an event which confers a curious distinction upon every individual
    now living in the world: he has stood alive and breathing in the
    presence of an event such as has not fallen within the experience of any
    traceable or untraceable ancestor of his for twenty centuries, and it
    is not likely to fall within the experience of any descendant of his for
    twenty more.
  233. fame
    the state or quality of being widely honored and acclaimed
    This common madness can develop, by nurture, into a
    hunger for notoriety in one, for fame in another.
  234. trick
    a cunning or deceitful action or device
    It is this madness
    for being noticed and talked about which has invented kingship and the
    thousand other dignities, and tricked them out with pretty and showy
    fineries; it has made kings pick one another's pockets, scramble for one
    another's crowns and estates, slaughter one another's subjects; it has
    raised up prize-fighters, and poets, and villages mayors, and little
    and big politicians, and big and little charity-founders, and bicycle
    champions, and banditti chiefs, and frontier de...
  235. talk
    use language
    Many
    a time during these seventeen centuries members of that family have
    been startled with the news of extraordinary events--the destruction
    of cities, the fall of thrones, the murder of kings, the wreck of
    dynasties, the extinction of religions, the birth of new systems of
    government; and their descendants have been by to hear of it and talk
    about it when all these things were repeated once, twice, or a dozen
    times--but to even that family has come news at last which is not staled
    b...
  236. swept
    possessing sweep
    Since the telegraph first began to stretch itself
    wider and wider about the earth, larger and increasingly larger areas of
    the world have, as time went on, received simultaneously the shock of
    a great calamity; but this is the first time in history that the entire
    surface of the globe has been swept in a single instant with the thrill
    of so gigantic an event.
  237. ambition
    a strong drive for success
    All the whole list of desires, predilections, aversions, ambitions,
    passions, cares, griefs, regrets, remorses, are incipient madness, and
    ready to grow, spread, and consume, when the occasion comes.
  238. frequent
    coming at short intervals or habitually
    The destruction of a city is a large
    event, but it is one which repeats itself several times in a thousand
    years; the destruction of a third part of a nation by plague and famine
    is a large event, but it has happened several times in history; the
    murder of a king is a large event, but it has been frequent.
  239. century
    a period of 100 years
    Many
    a time during these seventeen centuries members of that family have
    been startled with the news of extraordinary events--the destruction
    of cities, the fall of thrones, the murder of kings, the wreck of
    dynasties, the extinction of religions, the birth of new systems of
    government; and their descendants have been by to hear of it and talk
    about it when all these things were repeated once, twice, or a dozen
    times--but to even that family has come news at last which is not staled
    b...
  240. put in
    break into a conversation
    Every
    child is pleased at being noticed; many intolerable children put in
    their whole time in distressing and idiotic effort to attract the
    attention of visitors; boys are always "showing off"; apparently all
    men and women are glad and grateful when they find that they have done
    a thing which has lifted them for a moment out of obscurity and caused
    wondering talk.
  241. waste
    use inefficiently or inappropriately
    For one reason,
    there was then not much of a world to electrify; it was a small world,
    as to known bulk, and it had rather a thin population, besides; and for
    another reason, the news traveled so slowly that its tremendous initial
    thrill wasted away, week by week and month by month, on the journey, and
    by the time it reached the remoter regions there was but little of it
    left.
  242. talent
    natural abilities or qualities
    He is at the
    bottom of the human ladder, as the accepted estimates of degree and
    value go: a soiled and patched young loafer, without gifts, without
    talents, without education, without morals, without character, without
    any born charm or any acquired one that wins or beguiles or attracts;
    without a single grace of mind or heart or hand that any tramp or
    prostitute could envy him; an unfaithful private in the ranks, an
    incompetent stone-cutter, an inefficient lackey; in a word, a mangy...
  243. not
    negation of a word or group of words
    Many
    a time during these seventeen centuries members of that family have
    been startled with the news of extraordinary events--the destruction
    of cities, the fall of thrones, the murder of kings, the wreck of
    dynasties, the extinction of religions, the birth of new systems of
    government; and their descendants have been by to hear of it and talk
    about it when all these things were repeated once, twice, or a dozen
    times--but to even that family has come news at last which is not staled
    b...
  244. pretend
    make believe with the intent to deceive
    At
    our best and stateliest we are not suns, as we pretended, and teach, and
    believe, but only candles; and any bummer can blow us out.
  245. distress
    a state of adversity
    Every
    child is pleased at being noticed; many intolerable children put in
    their whole time in distressing and idiotic effort to attract the
    attention of visitors; boys are always "showing off"; apparently all
    men and women are glad and grateful when they find that they have done
    a thing which has lifted them for a moment out of obscurity and caused
    wondering talk.
  246. city
    a large and densely populated urban area
    The destruction of a city is a large
    event, but it is one which repeats itself several times in a thousand
    years; the destruction of a third part of a nation by plague and famine
    is a large event, but it has happened several times in history; the
    murder of a king is a large event, but it has been frequent.
  247. grief
    intense sorrow caused by loss of a loved one
    All the whole list of desires, predilections, aversions, ambitions,
    passions, cares, griefs, regrets, remorses, are incipient madness, and
    ready to grow, spread, and consume, when the occasion comes.
  248. Japan
    a constitutional monarchy occupying the Japanese Archipelago
    When those amazing words struck upon my ear in this
    Austrian village last Saturday, three hours after the disaster, I knew
    that it was already old news in London, Paris, Berlin, New York, San
    Francisco, Japan, China, Melbourne, Cape Town, Bombay, Madras,
    Calcutta, and that the entire globe with a single voice, was cursing
    the perpetrator of it.
  249. ideal
    a principle or value that one hopes to attain or conform to
    And it was within the privileges and powers of this
    sarcasm upon the human race to reach up--up--up--and strike from its far
    summit in the social skies the world's accepted ideal of Glory and Might
    and Splendor and Sacredness!
  250. throne
    the chair of state for a monarch, bishop, etc.
    Many
    a time during these seventeen centuries members of that family have
    been startled with the news of extraordinary events--the destruction
    of cities, the fall of thrones, the murder of kings, the wreck of
    dynasties, the extinction of religions, the birth of new systems of
    government; and their descendants have been by to hear of it and talk
    about it when all these things were repeated once, twice, or a dozen
    times--but to even that family has come news at last which is not staled
    b...
  251. wholly
    to the full or entire extent
    And now we get realized to us once more another thing which we often
    forget--or try to: that no man has a wholly undiseased mind; that in
    one way or another all men are mad.
  252. twenty
    the cardinal number that is the sum of nineteen and one
    It is an event which confers a curious distinction upon every individual
    now living in the world: he has stood alive and breathing in the
    presence of an event such as has not fallen within the experience of any
    traceable or untraceable ancestor of his for twenty centuries, and it
    is not likely to fall within the experience of any descendant of his for
    twenty more.
  253. form
    a perceptual structure
    When this
    madness is in a mild form it is harmless and the man passes for sane;
    but when it develops powerfully and takes possession of the man, it can
    make him cheat, rob, and kill; and when he has got his fortune and lost
    it again it can land him in the asylum or the suicide's coffin.
  254. earth
    the third planet from the sun
    The
    oldest family of unchallenged descent in Christendom lives in Rome and
    traces its line back seventeen hundred years, but no member of it has
    been present in the earth when an empress was murdered, until now.
  255. can
    airtight sealed metal container for food or drink, etc.
    At
    our best and stateliest we are not suns, as we pretended, and teach, and
    believe, but only candles; and any bummer can blow us out.
  256. despair
    a state in which all hope is lost or absent
    Love
    is a madness; if thwarted it develops fast; it can grow to a frenzy
    of despair and make an otherwise sane and highly gifted prince, like
    Rudolph, throw away the crown of an empire and snuff out his own life.
  257. in time
    within an indefinite time or at an unspecified future time
    And in five minutes' time, at no
    cost of brain, or labor, or genius this mangy Italian tramp has beaten
    them all, transcended them all, outstripped them all, for in time their
    names will perish; but by the friendly help of the insane newspapers and
    courts and kings and historians, his is safe and live and thunder in the
    world all down the ages as long as human speech shall endure!
  258. lifted
    held up in the air
    Every
    child is pleased at being noticed; many intolerable children put in
    their whole time in distressing and idiotic effort to attract the
    attention of visitors; boys are always "showing off"; apparently all
    men and women are glad and grateful when they find that they have done
    a thing which has lifted them for a moment out of obscurity and caused
    wondering talk.
  259. regret
    feel sorry for; be contrite about
    All the whole list of desires, predilections, aversions, ambitions,
    passions, cares, griefs, regrets, remorses, are incipient madness, and
    ready to grow, spread, and consume, when the occasion comes.
  260. prize
    something given for victory or superiority in a contest or competition or for winning a lottery
    It is this madness
    for being noticed and talked about which has invented kingship and the
    thousand other dignities, and tricked them out with pretty and showy
    fineries; it has made kings pick one another's pockets, scramble for one
    another's crowns and estates, slaughter one another's subjects; it has
    raised up prize-fighters, and poets, and villages mayors, and little
    and big politicians, and big and little charity-founders, and bicycle
    champions, and banditti chiefs, and frontier de...
  261. friendly
    characteristic of or befitting an ally
    And in five minutes' time, at no
    cost of brain, or labor, or genius this mangy Italian tramp has beaten
    them all, transcended them all, outstripped them all, for in time their
    names will perish; but by the friendly help of the insane newspapers and
    courts and kings and historians, his is safe and live and thunder in the
    world all down the ages as long as human speech shall endure!
  262. man
    an adult person who is male (as opposed to a woman)
    And now we get realized to us once more another thing which we often
    forget--or try to: that no man has a wholly undiseased mind; that in
    one way or another all men are mad.
  263. member
    anything that belongs to a set or class
    The
    oldest family of unchallenged descent in Christendom lives in Rome and
    traces its line back seventeen hundred years, but no member of it has
    been present in the earth when an empress was murdered, until now.
  264. showing
    the display of a motion picture
    Every
    child is pleased at being noticed; many intolerable children put in
    their whole time in distressing and idiotic effort to attract the
    attention of visitors; boys are always "showing off"; apparently all
    men and women are glad and grateful when they find that they have done
    a thing which has lifted them for a moment out of obscurity and caused
    wondering talk.
  265. visitor
    someone who visits
    Every
    child is pleased at being noticed; many intolerable children put in
    their whole time in distressing and idiotic effort to attract the
    attention of visitors; boys are always "showing off"; apparently all
    men and women are glad and grateful when they find that they have done
    a thing which has lifted them for a moment out of obscurity and caused
    wondering talk.
  266. extraordinary
    highly unusual or exceptional or remarkable
    Many
    a time during these seventeen centuries members of that family have
    been startled with the news of extraordinary events--the destruction
    of cities, the fall of thrones, the murder of kings, the wreck of
    dynasties, the extinction of religions, the birth of new systems of
    government; and their descendants have been by to hear of it and talk
    about it when all these things were repeated once, twice, or a dozen
    times--but to even that family has come news at last which is not staled
    b...
  267. many a
    each of a large indefinite number
    Many
    a     time during these seventeen centuries members of that family have
    been startled with the news of extraordinary events--the destruction
    of cities, the fall of thrones, the murder of kings, the wreck of
    dynasties, the extinction of religions, the birth of new systems of
    government; and their descendants have been by to hear of it and talk
    about it when all these things were repeated once, twice, or a dozen
    times--but to even that family has come news at last which is not staled
    b...
  268. change
    become different in some particular way
    Time has made some great changes since the Roman days.
  269. fall
    descend freely under the influence of gravity
    Many
    a time during these seventeen centuries members of that family have
    been startled with the news of extraordinary events--the destruction
    of cities, the fall of thrones, the murder of kings, the wreck of
    dynasties, the extinction of religions, the birth of new systems of
    government; and their descendants have been by to hear of it and talk
    about it when all these things were repeated once, twice, or a dozen
    times--but to even that family has come news at last which is not staled
    b...
  270. nation
    a politically organized body of people under a government
    The destruction of a city is a large
    event, but it is one which repeats itself several times in a thousand
    years; the destruction of a third part of a nation by plague and famine
    is a large event, but it has happened several times in history; the
    murder of a king is a large event, but it has been frequent.
  271. strike
    deliver a sharp blow, as with the hand, fist, or weapon
    When those amazing words struck upon my ear in this
    Austrian village last Saturday, three hours after the disaster, I knew
    that it was already old news in London, Paris, Berlin, New York, San
    Francisco, Japan, China, Melbourne, Cape Town, Bombay, Madras,
    Calcutta, and that the entire globe with a single voice, was cursing
    the perpetrator of it.
  272. mind
    that which is responsible for one's thoughts and feelings
    He is at the
    bottom of the human ladder, as the accepted estimates of degree and
    value go: a soiled and patched young loafer, without gifts, without
    talents, without education, without morals, without character, without
    any born charm or any acquired one that wins or beguiles or attracts;
    without a single grace of mind or heart or hand that any tramp or
    prostitute could envy him; an unfaithful private in the ranks, an
    incompetent stone-cutter, an inefficient lackey; in a word, a mangy...
  273. highly
    to a great degree or extent; favorably or with much respect
    Love
    is a madness; if thwarted it develops fast; it can grow to a frenzy
    of despair and make an otherwise sane and highly gifted prince, like
    Rudolph, throw away the crown of an empire and snuff out his own life.
  274. supreme
    greatest in status or authority or power
    There are
    no healthy minds, and nothing saves any man but accident--the accident
    of not having his malady put to the supreme test.
  275. shock
    an unpleasant or disappointing surprise
    Since the telegraph first began to stretch itself
    wider and wider about the earth, larger and increasingly larger areas of
    the world have, as time went on, received simultaneously the shock of
    a great calamity; but this is the first time in history that the entire
    surface of the globe has been swept in a single instant with the thrill
    of so gigantic an event.
  276. alive
    possessing life
    It is an event which confers a curious distinction upon every individual
    now living in the world: he has stood alive and breathing in the
    presence of an event such as has not fallen within the experience of any
    traceable or untraceable ancestor of his for twenty centuries, and it
    is not likely to fall within the experience of any descendant of his for
    twenty more.
  277. genius
    unusual mental ability
    And in five minutes' time, at no
    cost of brain, or labor, or genius this mangy Italian tramp has beaten
    them all, transcended them all, outstripped them all, for in time their
    names will perish; but by the friendly help of the insane newspapers and
    courts and kings and historians, his is safe and live and thunder in the
    world all down the ages as long as human speech shall endure!
  278. empty
    holding or containing nothing
    He is at the
    bottom of the human ladder, as the accepted estimates of degree and
    value go: a soiled and patched young loafer, without gifts, without
    talents, without education, without morals, without character, without
    any born charm or any acquired one that wins or beguiles or attracts;
    without a single grace of mind or heart or hand that any tramp or
    prostitute could envy him; an unfaithful private in the ranks, an
    incompetent stone-cutter, an inefficient lackey; in a word, a mangy,
    offen...
  279. raise
    move upwards
    It is this madness
    for being noticed and talked about which has invented kingship and the
    thousand other dignities, and tricked them out with pretty and showy
    fineries; it has made kings pick one another's pockets, scramble for one
    another's crowns and estates, slaughter one another's subjects; it has
    raised up prize-fighters, and poets, and villages mayors, and little
    and big politicians, and big and little charity-founders, and bicycle
    champions, and banditti chiefs, and frontier de...
  280. soil
    material in the top layer of the surface of the earth
    He is at the
    bottom of the human ladder, as the accepted estimates of degree and
    value go: a soiled and patched young loafer, without gifts, without
    talents, without education, without morals, without character, without
    any born charm or any acquired one that wins or beguiles or attracts;
    without a single grace of mind or heart or hand that any tramp or
    prostitute could envy him; an unfaithful private in the ranks, an
    incompetent stone-cutter, an inefficient lackey; in a word, a mangy...
  281. furnish
    provide with objects or articles that make a room usable
    And who is the miracle-worker who has furnished to the world this
    spectacle?
  282. estate
    extensive landed property retained by the owner
    It is this madness
    for being noticed and talked about which has invented kingship and the
    thousand other dignities, and tricked them out with pretty and showy
    fineries; it has made kings pick one another's pockets, scramble for one
    another's crowns and estates, slaughter one another's subjects; it has
    raised up prize-fighters, and poets, and villages mayors, and little
    and big politicians, and big and little charity-founders, and bicycle
    champions, and banditti chiefs, and frontier de...
  283. trace
    an indication that something has been present
    The
    oldest family of unchallenged descent in Christendom lives in Rome and
    traces its line back seventeen hundred years, but no member of it has
    been present in the earth when an empress was murdered, until now.
  284. thin
    of relatively small extent from one surface to the opposite
    For one reason,
    there was then not much of a world to electrify; it was a small world,
    as to known bulk, and it had rather a thin population, besides; and for
    another reason, the news traveled so slowly that its tremendous initial
    thrill wasted away, week by week and month by month, on the journey, and
    by the time it reached the remoter regions there was but little of it
    left.
  285. put
    cause to be in a certain state
    One must go back
    about two thousand years to find an instance to put with this one.
  286. several
    of an indefinite number more than 2 or 3 but not many
    The destruction of a city is a large
    event, but it is one which repeats itself several times in a thousand
    years; the destruction of a third part of a nation by plague and famine
    is a large event, but it has happened several times in history; the
    murder of a king is a large event, but it has been frequent.
  287. flight
    an instance of traveling by air
    But the world is enormous
    now, and prodigiously populated--that is one change; and another is the
    lightning swiftness of the flight of tidings, good and bad.
  288. go back
    return in thought or speech to something
    One must go back
    about two thousand years to find an instance to put with this one.
  289. curious
    eager to investigate and learn or learn more
    It is an event which confers a curious distinction upon every individual
    now living in the world: he has stood alive and breathing in the
    presence of an event such as has not fallen within the experience of any
    traceable or untraceable ancestor of his for twenty centuries, and it
    is not likely to fall within the experience of any descendant of his for
    twenty more.
  290. sorry
    feeling or expressing regret
    It realizes to us what sorry shows and
    shadows we are.
  291. twice
    two times
    Many
    a time during these seventeen centuries members of that family have
    been startled with the news of extraordinary events--the destruction
    of cities, the fall of thrones, the murder of kings, the wreck of
    dynasties, the extinction of religions, the birth of new systems of
    government; and their descendants have been by to hear of it and talk
    about it when all these things were repeated once, twice, or a dozen
    times--but to even that family has come news at last which is not staled
    b...
  292. birth
    the time when something begins (especially life)
    Many
    a time during these seventeen centuries members of that family have
    been startled with the news of extraordinary events--the destruction
    of cities, the fall of thrones, the murder of kings, the wreck of
    dynasties, the extinction of religions, the birth of new systems of
    government; and their descendants have been by to hear of it and talk
    about it when all these things were repeated once, twice, or a dozen
    times--but to even that family has come news at last which is not staled
    b...
  293. big
    above average in size or number or quantity
    It is this madness
    for being noticed and talked about which has invented kingship and the
    thousand other dignities, and tricked them out with pretty and showy
    fineries; it has made kings pick one another's pockets, scramble for one
    another's crowns and estates, slaughter one another's subjects; it has
    raised up prize-fighters, and poets, and villages mayors, and little
    and big politicians, and big and little charity-founders, and bicycle
    champions, and banditti chiefs, and frontier de...
  294. region
    the extended spatial location of something
    For one reason,
    there was then not much of a world to electrify; it was a small world,
    as to known bulk, and it had rather a thin population, besides; and for
    another reason, the news traveled so slowly that its tremendous initial
    thrill wasted away, week by week and month by month, on the journey, and
    by the time it reached the remoter regions there was but little of it
    left.
  295. worker
    a person who works at a specific occupation
    And who is the miracle-worker who has furnished to the world this
    spectacle?
  296. otherwise
    in another and different manner
    Love
    is a madness; if thwarted it develops fast; it can grow to a frenzy
    of despair and make an otherwise sane and highly gifted prince, like
    Rudolph, throw away the crown of an empire and snuff out his own life.
  297. repeated
    recurring again and again
    Many
    a time during these seventeen centuries members of that family have
    been startled with the news of extraordinary events--the destruction
    of cities, the fall of thrones, the murder of kings, the wreck of
    dynasties, the extinction of religions, the birth of new systems of
    government; and their descendants have been by to hear of it and talk
    about it when all these things were repeated once, twice, or a dozen
    times--but to even that family has come news at last which is not staled
    b...
  298. population
    the people who inhabit a territory or state
    For one reason,
    there was then not much of a world to electrify; it was a small world,
    as to known bulk, and it had rather a thin population, besides; and for
    another reason, the news traveled so slowly that its tremendous initial
    thrill wasted away, week by week and month by month, on the journey, and
    by the time it reached the remoter regions there was but little of it
    left.
  299. instant
    a very short time
    Since the telegraph first began to stretch itself
    wider and wider about the earth, larger and increasingly larger areas of
    the world have, as time went on, received simultaneously the shock of
    a great calamity; but this is the first time in history that the entire
    surface of the globe has been swept in a single instant with the thrill
    of so gigantic an event.
  300. newspaper
    a daily or weekly publication with articles and advertisements
    And in five minutes' time, at no
    cost of brain, or labor, or genius this mangy Italian tramp has beaten
    them all, transcended them all, outstripped them all, for in time their
    names will perish; but by the friendly help of the insane newspapers and
    courts and kings and historians, his is safe and live and thunder in the
    world all down the ages as long as human speech shall endure!
  301. fallen
    having dropped by the force of gravity
    It is an event which confers a curious distinction upon every individual
    now living in the world: he has stood alive and breathing in the
    presence of an event such as has not fallen within the experience of any
    traceable or untraceable ancestor of his for twenty centuries, and it
    is not likely to fall within the experience of any descendant of his for
    twenty more.
  302. grace
    elegance and beauty of movement or expression
    He is at the
    bottom of the human ladder, as the accepted estimates of degree and
    value go: a soiled and patched young loafer, without gifts, without
    talents, without education, without morals, without character, without
    any born charm or any acquired one that wins or beguiles or attracts;
    without a single grace of mind or heart or hand that any tramp or
    prostitute could envy him; an unfaithful private in the ranks, an
    incompetent stone-cutter, an inefficient lackey; in a word, a mangy...
  303. list
    a database containing an ordered array of items
    All the whole list of desires, predilections, aversions, ambitions,
    passions, cares, griefs, regrets, remorses, are incipient madness, and
    ready to grow, spread, and consume, when the occasion comes.
  304. bottom
    the lower side of anything
    He is at the
    bottom of the human ladder, as the accepted estimates of degree and
    value go: a soiled and patched young loafer, without gifts, without
    talents, without education, without morals, without character, without
    any born charm or any acquired one that wins or beguiles or attracts;
    without a single grace of mind or heart or hand that any tramp or
    prostitute could envy him; an unfaithful private in the ranks, an
    incompetent stone-cutter, an inefficient lackey; in a word, a mangy...
  305. surface
    the outer boundary of an artifact or a material layer
    Since the telegraph first began to stretch itself
    wider and wider about the earth, larger and increasingly larger areas of
    the world have, as time went on, received simultaneously the shock of
    a great calamity; but this is the first time in history that the entire
    surface of the globe has been swept in a single instant with the thrill
    of so gigantic an event.
  306. stretch
    extend one's limbs or muscles, or the entire body
    Since the telegraph first began to stretch itself
    wider and wider about the earth, larger and increasingly larger areas of
    the world have, as time went on, received simultaneously the shock of
    a great calamity; but this is the first time in history that the entire
    surface of the globe has been swept in a single instant with the thrill
    of so gigantic an event.
  307. Italian
    of or pertaining to or characteristic of Italy or its people or culture or language
    And in five minutes' time, at no
    cost of brain, or labor, or genius this mangy Italian tramp has beaten
    them all, transcended them all, outstripped them all, for in time their
    names will perish; but by the friendly help of the insane newspapers and
    courts and kings and historians, his is safe and live and thunder in the
    world all down the ages as long as human speech shall endure!
  308. clothes
    apparel in general
    Without our clothes and our pedestals we are poor things
    and much of a size; our dignities are not real, our pomps are shams.
  309. once more
    anew
    And now we get realized to us once more another thing which we often
    forget--or try to: that no man has a wholly undiseased mind; that in
    one way or another all men are mad.
  310. dozen
    the cardinal number that is the sum of eleven and one
    Many
    a time during these seventeen centuries members of that family have
    been startled with the news of extraordinary events--the destruction
    of cities, the fall of thrones, the murder of kings, the wreck of
    dynasties, the extinction of religions, the birth of new systems of
    government; and their descendants have been by to hear of it and talk
    about it when all these things were repeated once, twice, or a dozen
    times--but to even that family has come news at last which is not staled
    b...
  311. area
    the extent of a two-dimensional surface within a boundary
    Since the telegraph first began to stretch itself
    wider and wider about the earth, larger and increasingly larger areas of
    the world have, as time went on, received simultaneously the shock of
    a great calamity; but this is the first time in history that the entire
    surface of the globe has been swept in a single instant with the thrill
    of so gigantic an event.
  312. apparently
    seemingly; as far as one can tell
    Every
    child is pleased at being noticed; many intolerable children put in
    their whole time in distressing and idiotic effort to attract the
    attention of visitors; boys are always "showing off"; apparently all
    men and women are glad and grateful when they find that they have done
    a thing which has lifted them for a moment out of obscurity and caused
    wondering talk.
  313. China
    a communist nation that covers a vast territory in eastern Asia; the most populous country in the world
    When those amazing words struck upon my ear in this
    Austrian village last Saturday, three hours after the disaster, I knew
    that it was already old news in London, Paris, Berlin, New York, San
    Francisco, Japan, China, Melbourne, Cape Town, Bombay, Madras,
    Calcutta, and that the entire globe with a single voice, was cursing
    the perpetrator of it.
  314. glory
    a state of high honor
    And it was within the privileges and powers of this
    sarcasm upon the human race to reach up--up--up--and strike from its far
    summit in the social skies the world's accepted ideal of Glory and Might
    and Splendor and Sacredness!
  315. brain
    the organ that is the center of the nervous system
    And in five minutes' time, at no
    cost of brain, or labor, or genius this mangy Italian tramp has beaten
    them all, transcended them all, outstripped them all, for in time their
    names will perish; but by the friendly help of the insane newspapers and
    courts and kings and historians, his is safe and live and thunder in the
    world all down the ages as long as human speech shall endure!
  316. pocket
    a small pouch inside a garment for carrying small articles
    It is this madness
    for being noticed and talked about which has invented kingship and the
    thousand other dignities, and tricked them out with pretty and showy
    fineries; it has made kings pick one another's pockets, scramble for one
    another's crowns and estates, slaughter one another's subjects; it has
    raised up prize-fighters, and poets, and villages mayors, and little
    and big politicians, and big and little charity-founders, and bicycle
    champions, and banditti chiefs, and frontier de...
  317. pleased
    experiencing or manifesting pleasure
    Every
    child is pleased at being noticed; many intolerable children put in
    their whole time in distressing and idiotic effort to attract the
    attention of visitors; boys are always "showing off"; apparently all
    men and women are glad and grateful when they find that they have done
    a thing which has lifted them for a moment out of obscurity and caused
    wondering talk.
  318. month
    one of the twelve divisions of the calendar year
    For one reason,
    there was then not much of a world to electrify; it was a small world,
    as to known bulk, and it had rather a thin population, besides; and for
    another reason, the news traveled so slowly that its tremendous initial
    thrill wasted away, week by week and month by month, on the journey, and
    by the time it reached the remoter regions there was but little of it
    left.
  319. education
    activities that impart knowledge or skill
    He is at the
    bottom of the human ladder, as the accepted estimates of degree and
    value go: a soiled and patched young loafer, without gifts, without
    talents, without education, without morals, without character, without
    any born charm or any acquired one that wins or beguiles or attracts;
    without a single grace of mind or heart or hand that any tramp or
    prostitute could envy him; an unfaithful private in the ranks, an
    incompetent stone-cutter, an inefficient lackey; in a word, a mangy...
  320. sweep
    clean by using a broom or as if with a broom
    Since the telegraph first began to stretch itself
    wider and wider about the earth, larger and increasingly larger areas of
    the world have, as time went on, received simultaneously the shock of
    a great calamity; but this is the first time in history that the entire
    surface of the globe has been swept in a single instant with the thrill
    of so gigantic an event.
  321. reason
    a logical motive for a belief or action
    For one reason,
    there was then not much of a world to electrify; it was a small world,
    as to known bulk, and it had rather a thin population, besides; and for
    another reason, the news traveled so slowly that its tremendous initial
    thrill wasted away, week by week and month by month, on the journey, and
    by the time it reached the remoter regions there was but little of it
    left.
  322. test
    standardized procedure for measuring sensitivity or aptitude
    There are
    no healthy minds, and nothing saves any man but accident--the accident
    of not having his malady put to the supreme test.
  323. live in
    live in the house where one works
    It is an event which confers a curious distinction upon every individual
    now living in the world: he has stood alive and breathing in the
    presence of an event such as has not fallen within the experience of any
    traceable or untraceable ancestor of his for twenty centuries, and it
    is not likely to fall within the experience of any descendant of his for
    twenty more.
  324. years
    a prolonged period of time
    The destruction of a city is a large
    event, but it is one which repeats itself several times in a thousand
    years; the destruction of a third part of a nation by plague and famine
    is a large event, but it has happened several times in history; the
    murder of a king is a large event, but it has been frequent.
  325. grow
    increase in size by natural process
    Love
    is a madness; if thwarted it develops fast; it can grow to a frenzy
    of despair and make an otherwise sane and highly gifted prince, like
    Rudolph, throw away the crown of an empire and snuff out his own life.
  326. shadow
    a dark shape created by an object blocking a source of light
    It realizes to us what sorry shows and
    shadows we are.
  327. size
    the physical magnitude of something (how big it is)
    Without our clothes and our pedestals we are poor things
    and much of a size; our dignities are not real, our pomps are shams.
  328. safe
    free from danger or the risk of harm
    And in five minutes' time, at no
    cost of brain, or labor, or genius this mangy Italian tramp has beaten
    them all, transcended them all, outstripped them all, for in time their
    names will perish; but by the friendly help of the insane newspapers and
    courts and kings and historians, his is safe and live and thunder in the
    world all down the ages as long as human speech shall endure!
  329. Rome
    capital and largest city of Italy
    The
    oldest family of unchallenged descent in Christendom lives in Rome and
    traces its line back seventeen hundred years, but no member of it has
    been present in the earth when an empress was murdered, until now.
  330. journey
    the act of traveling from one place to another
    For one reason,
    there was then not much of a world to electrify; it was a small world,
    as to known bulk, and it had rather a thin population, besides; and for
    another reason, the news traveled so slowly that its tremendous initial
    thrill wasted away, week by week and month by month, on the journey, and
    by the time it reached the remoter regions there was but little of it
    left.
  331. possession
    anything owned
    When this
    madness is in a mild form it is harmless and the man passes for sane;
    but when it develops powerfully and takes possession of the man, it can
    make him cheat, rob, and kill; and when he has got his fortune and lost
    it again it can land him in the asylum or the suicide's coffin.
  332. names
    verbal abuse; a crude substitute for argument
    And in five minutes' time, at no
    cost of brain, or labor, or genius this mangy Italian tramp has beaten
    them all, transcended them all, outstripped them all, for in time their
    names will perish; but by the friendly help of the insane newspapers and
    courts and kings and historians, his is safe and live and thunder in the
    world all down the ages as long as human speech shall endure!
  333. labor
    any piece of work that is undertaken or attempted
    And in five minutes' time, at no
    cost of brain, or labor, or genius this mangy Italian tramp has beaten
    them all, transcended them all, outstripped them all, for in time their
    names will perish; but by the friendly help of the insane newspapers and
    courts and kings and historians, his is safe and live and thunder in the
    world all down the ages as long as human speech shall endure!
  334. charm
    attractiveness that interests or pleases or stimulates
    He is at the
    bottom of the human ladder, as the accepted estimates of degree and
    value go: a soiled and patched young loafer, without gifts, without
    talents, without education, without morals, without character, without
    any born charm or any acquired one that wins or beguiles or attracts;
    without a single grace of mind or heart or hand that any tramp or
    prostitute could envy him; an unfaithful private in the ranks, an
    incompetent stone-cutter, an inefficient lackey; in a word, a mangy...
  335. passion
    a strong feeling or emotion
    All the whole list of desires, predilections, aversions, ambitions,
    passions, cares, griefs, regrets, remorses, are incipient madness, and
    ready to grow, spread, and consume, when the occasion comes.
  336. about
    (of quantities) imprecise but fairly close to correct
    One must go back
    about two thousand years to find an instance to put with this one.
  337. rank
    relative status
    He is at the
    bottom of the human ladder, as the accepted estimates of degree and
    value go: a soiled and patched young loafer, without gifts, without
    talents, without education, without morals, without character, without
    any born charm or any acquired one that wins or beguiles or attracts;
    without a single grace of mind or heart or hand that any tramp or
    prostitute could envy him; an unfaithful private in the ranks, an
    incompetent stone-cutter, an inefficient lackey; in a word, a mangy...
  338. receive
    get something; come into possession of
    Since the telegraph first began to stretch itself
    wider and wider about the earth, larger and increasingly larger areas of
    the world have, as time went on, received simultaneously the shock of
    a great calamity; but this is the first time in history that the entire
    surface of the globe has been swept in a single instant with the thrill
    of so gigantic an event.
  339. being
    the state or fact of existing
    One of the commonest forms of madness is the desire to be noticed, the
    pleasure derived from being noticed.
  340. shout
    utter in a loud voice; talk in a loud voice
    Anything to get notoriety; anything to set the village, or the township,
    or the city, or the State, or the nation, or the planet shouting,
    "Look--there he goes--that is the man!"
  341. poet
    a writer of verse consisting of lines that often rhyme
    It is this madness
    for being noticed and talked about which has invented kingship and the
    thousand other dignities, and tricked them out with pretty and showy
    fineries; it has made kings pick one another's pockets, scramble for one
    another's crowns and estates, slaughter one another's subjects; it has
    raised up prize-fighters, and poets, and villages mayors, and little
    and big politicians, and big and little charity-founders, and bicycle
    champions, and banditti chiefs, and frontier de...
  342. sky
    the atmosphere and outer space as viewed from the earth
    And it was within the privileges and powers of this
    sarcasm upon the human race to reach up--up--up--and strike from its far
    summit in the social skies the world's accepted ideal of Glory and Might
    and Splendor and Sacredness!
  343. clothe
    provide with clothes or put clothes on
    Without our clothes and our pedestals we are poor things
    and much of a size; our dignities are not real, our pomps are shams.
  344. spread
    distribute or disperse widely
    All the whole list of desires, predilections, aversions, ambitions,
    passions, cares, griefs, regrets, remorses, are incipient madness, and
    ready to grow, spread, and consume, when the occasion comes.
  345. instance
    an item of information that is typical of a class or group
    One must go back
    about two thousand years to find an instance to put with this one.
  346. many
    a large number of the persons or things being discussed
    Many
    a time during these seventeen centuries members of that family have
    been startled with the news of extraordinary events--the destruction
    of cities, the fall of thrones, the murder of kings, the wreck of
    dynasties, the extinction of religions, the birth of new systems of
    government; and their descendants have been by to hear of it and talk
    about it when all these things were repeated once, twice, or a dozen
    times--but to even that family has come news at last which is not staled
    b...
  347. moral
    concerned with principles of right and wrong
    He is at the
    bottom of the human ladder, as the accepted estimates of degree and
    value go: a soiled and patched young loafer, without gifts, without
    talents, without education, without morals, without character, without
    any born charm or any acquired one that wins or beguiles or attracts;
    without a single grace of mind or heart or hand that any tramp or
    prostitute could envy him; an unfaithful private in the ranks, an
    incompetent stone-cutter, an inefficient lackey; in a word, a mangy...
  348. now
    at the present moment
    The
    oldest family of unchallenged descent in Christendom lives in Rome and
    traces its line back seventeen hundred years, but no member of it has
    been present in the earth when an empress was murdered, until now.
  349. lift
    raise from a lower to a higher position
    Every
    child is pleased at being noticed; many intolerable children put in
    their whole time in distressing and idiotic effort to attract the
    attention of visitors; boys are always "showing off"; apparently all
    men and women are glad and grateful when they find that they have done
    a thing which has lifted them for a moment out of obscurity and caused
    wondering talk.
  350. memory
    the cognitive process whereby past experience is remembered
    Many
    a time during these seventeen centuries members of that family have
    been startled with the news of extraordinary events--the destruction
    of cities, the fall of thrones, the murder of kings, the wreck of
    dynasties, the extinction of religions, the birth of new systems of
    government; and their descendants have been by to hear of it and talk
    about it when all these things were repeated once, twice, or a dozen
    times--but to even that family has come news at last which is not staled
    by use, ...
  351. whole
    all of something, including all of its elements or parts
    All the whole list of desires, predilections, aversions, ambitions,
    passions, cares, griefs, regrets, remorses, are incipient madness, and
    ready to grow, spread, and consume, when the occasion comes.
  352. pick
    look for and gather
    It is this madness
    for being noticed and talked about which has invented kingship and the
    thousand other dignities, and tricked them out with pretty and showy
    fineries; it has made kings pick one another's pockets, scramble for one
    another's crowns and estates, slaughter one another's subjects; it has
    raised up prize-fighters, and poets, and villages mayors, and little
    and big politicians, and big and little charity-founders, and bicycle
    champions, and banditti chiefs, and frontier de...
  353. individual
    being or characteristic of a single thing or person
    It is an event which confers a curious distinction upon every individual
    now living in the world: he has stood alive and breathing in the
    presence of an event such as has not fallen within the experience of any
    traceable or untraceable ancestor of his for twenty centuries, and it
    is not likely to fall within the experience of any descendant of his for
    twenty more.
  354. no longer
    not now
    It was no longer a fresh event, it was a thing of the far past;
    it was not properly news, it was history.
  355. likely
    having a good chance of being the case or of coming about
    It is an event which confers a curious distinction upon every individual
    now living in the world: he has stood alive and breathing in the
    presence of an event such as has not fallen within the experience of any
    traceable or untraceable ancestor of his for twenty centuries, and it
    is not likely to fall within the experience of any descendant of his for
    twenty more.
  356. fortune
    your overall circumstances or condition in life
    When this
    madness is in a mild form it is harmless and the man passes for sane;
    but when it develops powerfully and takes possession of the man, it can
    make him cheat, rob, and kill; and when he has got his fortune and lost
    it again it can land him in the asylum or the suicide's coffin.
  357. fresh
    recently made, produced, or harvested
    It was no longer a fresh event, it was a thing of the far past;
    it was not properly news, it was history.
  358. struck
    (used in combination) affected by something overwhelming
    When those amazing words struck upon my ear in this
    Austrian village last Saturday, three hours after the disaster, I knew
    that it was already old news in London, Paris, Berlin, New York, San
    Francisco, Japan, China, Melbourne, Cape Town, Bombay, Madras,
    Calcutta, and that the entire globe with a single voice, was cursing
    the perpetrator of it.
  359. value
    the quality that renders something desirable
    He is at the
    bottom of the human ladder, as the accepted estimates of degree and
    value go: a soiled and patched young loafer, without gifts, without
    talents, without education, without morals, without character, without
    any born charm or any acquired one that wins or beguiles or attracts;
    without a single grace of mind or heart or hand that any tramp or
    prostitute could envy him; an unfaithful private in the ranks, an
    incompetent stone-cutter, an inefficient lackey; in a word, a mangy...
  360. please
    give enjoyment to
    Every
    child is pleased at being noticed; many intolerable children put in
    their whole time in distressing and idiotic effort to attract the
    attention of visitors; boys are always "showing off"; apparently all
    men and women are glad and grateful when they find that they have done
    a thing which has lifted them for a moment out of obscurity and caused
    wondering talk.
  361. slowly
    without speed
    For one reason,
    there was then not much of a world to electrify; it was a small world,
    as to known bulk, and it had rather a thin population, besides; and for
    another reason, the news traveled so slowly that its tremendous initial
    thrill wasted away, week by week and month by month, on the journey, and
    by the time it reached the remoter regions there was but little of it
    left.
  362. merely
    and nothing more
    Perhaps it is not merely common,
    but universal.
  363. fast
    acting, moving, or capable of acting or moving quickly
    Love
    is a madness; if thwarted it develops fast; it can grow to a frenzy
    of despair and make an otherwise sane and highly gifted prince, like
    Rudolph, throw away the crown of an empire and snuff out his own life.
  364. presence
    current existence
    It is an event which confers a curious distinction upon every individual
    now living in the world: he has stood alive and breathing in the
    presence of an event such as has not fallen within the experience of any
    traceable or untraceable ancestor of his for twenty centuries, and it
    is not likely to fall within the experience of any descendant of his for
    twenty more.
  365. besides
    in addition
    For one reason,
    there was then not much of a world to electrify; it was a small world,
    as to known bulk, and it had rather a thin population, besides; and for
    another reason, the news traveled so slowly that its tremendous initial
    thrill wasted away, week by week and month by month, on the journey, and
    by the time it reached the remoter regions there was but little of it
    left.
  366. social
    living together or enjoying life in communities
    And it was within the privileges and powers of this
    sarcasm upon the human race to reach up--up--up--and strike from its far
    summit in the social skies the world's accepted ideal of Glory and Might
    and Splendor and Sacredness!
  367. raised
    located or moved above the surround or above the normal position
    It is this madness
    for being noticed and talked about which has invented kingship and the
    thousand other dignities, and tricked them out with pretty and showy
    fineries; it has made kings pick one another's pockets, scramble for one
    another's crowns and estates, slaughter one another's subjects; it has
    raised up prize-fighters, and poets, and villages mayors, and little
    and big politicians, and big and little charity-founders, and bicycle
    champions, and banditti chiefs, and frontier de...
  368. glad
    showing or causing joy and pleasure; especially made happy
    Every
    child is pleased at being noticed; many intolerable children put in
    their whole time in distressing and idiotic effort to attract the
    attention of visitors; boys are always "showing off"; apparently all
    men and women are glad and grateful when they find that they have done
    a thing which has lifted them for a moment out of obscurity and caused
    wondering talk.
  369. religion
    a strong belief in supernatural powers that control destiny
    Many
    a time during these seventeen centuries members of that family have
    been startled with the news of extraordinary events--the destruction
    of cities, the fall of thrones, the murder of kings, the wreck of
    dynasties, the extinction of religions, the birth of new systems of
    government; and their descendants have been by to hear of it and talk
    about it when all these things were repeated once, twice, or a dozen
    times--but to even that family has come news at last which is not staled
    b...
  370. cost
    be priced at
    And in five minutes' time, at no
    cost of brain, or labor, or genius this mangy Italian tramp has beaten
    them all, transcended them all, outstripped them all, for in time their
    names will perish; but by the friendly help of the insane newspapers and
    courts and kings and historians, his is safe and live and thunder in the
    world all down the ages as long as human speech shall endure!
  371. Roman
    relating to or characteristic of people of Rome
    Time has made some great changes since the Roman days.
  372. travel
    change location
    For one reason,
    there was then not much of a world to electrify; it was a small world,
    as to known bulk, and it had rather a thin population, besides; and for
    another reason, the news traveled so slowly that its tremendous initial
    thrill wasted away, week by week and month by month, on the journey, and
    by the time it reached the remoter regions there was but little of it
    left.
  373. more
    greater in size or amount or extent or degree
    The more one thinks of the assassination, the more imposing and
    tremendous the event becomes.
  374. things
    any movable possession (especially articles of clothing)
    Many
    a time during these seventeen centuries members of that family have
    been startled with the news of extraordinary events--the destruction
    of cities, the fall of thrones, the murder of kings, the wreck of
    dynasties, the extinction of religions, the birth of new systems of
    government; and their descendants have been by to hear of it and talk
    about it when all these things were repeated once, twice, or a dozen
    times--but to even that family has come news at last which is not staled
    b...
  375. live
    have life, be alive
    It is an event which confers a curious distinction upon every individual
    now living in the world: he has stood alive and breathing in the
    presence of an event such as has not fallen within the experience of any
    traceable or untraceable ancestor of his for twenty centuries, and it
    is not likely to fall within the experience of any descendant of his for
    twenty more.
  376. degree
    a specific identifiable position in a continuum or series
    He is at the
    bottom of the human ladder, as the accepted estimates of degree and
    value go: a soiled and patched young loafer, without gifts, without
    talents, without education, without morals, without character, without
    any born charm or any acquired one that wins or beguiles or attracts;
    without a single grace of mind or heart or hand that any tramp or
    prostitute could envy him; an unfaithful private in the ranks, an
    incompetent stone-cutter, an inefficient lackey; in a word, a mangy...
  377. private
    confined to particular persons or groups
    He is at the
    bottom of the human ladder, as the accepted estimates of degree and
    value go: a soiled and patched young loafer, without gifts, without
    talents, without education, without morals, without character, without
    any born charm or any acquired one that wins or beguiles or attracts;
    without a single grace of mind or heart or hand that any tramp or
    prostitute could envy him; an unfaithful private in the ranks, an
    incompetent stone-cutter, an inefficient lackey; in a word, a mangy...
  378. out
    moving or appearing to move away from a place, especially one that is enclosed or hidden
    At
    our best and stateliest we are not suns, as we pretended, and teach, and
    believe, but only candles; and any bummer can blow us out.
  379. far
    at or to or from a great distance in space
    It was no longer a fresh event, it was a thing of the far past;
    it was not properly news, it was history.
  380. speech
    communication by word of mouth
    And in five minutes' time, at no
    cost of brain, or labor, or genius this mangy Italian tramp has beaten
    them all, transcended them all, outstripped them all, for in time their
    names will perish; but by the friendly help of the insane newspapers and
    courts and kings and historians, his is safe and live and thunder in the
    world all down the ages as long as human speech shall endure!
  381. beat
    hit repeatedly
    And in five minutes' time, at no
    cost of brain, or labor, or genius this mangy Italian tramp has beaten
    them all, transcended them all, outstripped them all, for in time their
    names will perish; but by the friendly help of the insane newspapers and
    courts and kings and historians, his is safe and live and thunder in the
    world all down the ages as long as human speech shall endure!
  382. Paris
    (Greek mythology) the prince of Troy who abducted Helen from her husband Menelaus and provoked the Trojan War
    When those amazing words struck upon my ear in this
    Austrian village last Saturday, three hours after the disaster, I knew
    that it was already old news in London, Paris, Berlin, New York, San
    Francisco, Japan, China, Melbourne, Cape Town, Bombay, Madras,
    Calcutta, and that the entire globe with a single voice, was cursing
    the perpetrator of it.
  383. ear
    the sense organ for hearing and equilibrium
    When those amazing words struck upon my ear in this
    Austrian village last Saturday, three hours after the disaster, I knew
    that it was already old news in London, Paris, Berlin, New York, San
    Francisco, Japan, China, Melbourne, Cape Town, Bombay, Madras,
    Calcutta, and that the entire globe with a single voice, was cursing
    the perpetrator of it.
  384. week
    any period of seven consecutive days
    For one reason,
    there was then not much of a world to electrify; it was a small world,
    as to known bulk, and it had rather a thin population, besides; and for
    another reason, the news traveled so slowly that its tremendous initial
    thrill wasted away, week by week and month by month, on the journey, and
    by the time it reached the remoter regions there was but little of it
    left.
  385. little
    limited or below average in number or quantity or magnitude
    For one reason,
    there was then not much of a world to electrify; it was a small world,
    as to known bulk, and it had rather a thin population, besides; and for
    another reason, the news traveled so slowly that its tremendous initial
    thrill wasted away, week by week and month by month, on the journey, and
    by the time it reached the remoter regions there was but little of it
    left.
  386. born
    brought into existence
    He is at the
    bottom of the human ladder, as the accepted estimates of degree and
    value go: a soiled and patched young loafer, without gifts, without
    talents, without education, without morals, without character, without
    any born charm or any acquired one that wins or beguiles or attracts;
    without a single grace of mind or heart or hand that any tramp or
    prostitute could envy him; an unfaithful private in the ranks, an
    incompetent stone-cutter, an inefficient lackey; in a word, a mangy...
  387. occasion
    an event that occurs at a critical time
    All the whole list of desires, predilections, aversions, ambitions,
    passions, cares, griefs, regrets, remorses, are incipient madness, and
    ready to grow, spread, and consume, when the occasion comes.
  388. show
    make visible or noticeable
    It realizes to us what sorry shows and
    shadows we are.
  389. child
    a human offspring (son or daughter) of any age
    Every
    child is pleased at being noticed; many intolerable children put in
    their whole time in distressing and idiotic effort to attract the
    attention of visitors; boys are always "showing off"; apparently all
    men and women are glad and grateful when they find that they have done
    a thing which has lifted them for a moment out of obscurity and caused
    wondering talk.
  390. minutes
    a written account of what transpired at a meeting
    And in five minutes' time, at no
    cost of brain, or labor, or genius this mangy Italian tramp has beaten
    them all, transcended them all, outstripped them all, for in time their
    names will perish; but by the friendly help of the insane newspapers and
    courts and kings and historians, his is safe and live and thunder in the
    world all down the ages as long as human speech shall endure!
  391. get
    come into the possession of something concrete or abstract
    And now we get realized to us once more another thing which we often
    forget--or try to: that no man has a wholly undiseased mind; that in
    one way or another all men are mad.
  392. blow
    be in motion due to some air or water current
    At
    our best and stateliest we are not suns, as we pretended, and teach, and
    believe, but only candles; and any bummer can blow us out.
  393. once
    on one occasion
    Many
    a time during these seventeen centuries members of that family have
    been startled with the news of extraordinary events--the destruction
    of cities, the fall of thrones, the murder of kings, the wreck of
    dynasties, the extinction of religions, the birth of new systems of
    government; and their descendants have been by to hear of it and talk
    about it when all these things were repeated once, twice, or a dozen
    times--but to even that family has come news at last which is not staled
    b...
  394. pleasure
    something or someone that provides a source of happiness
    One of the commonest forms of madness is the desire to be noticed, the
    pleasure derived from being noticed.
  395. teach
    impart skills or knowledge to
    At
    our best and stateliest we are not suns, as we pretended, and teach, and
    believe, but only candles; and any bummer can blow us out.
  396. year
    the period of time that it takes for a planet (as, e.g., Earth or Mars) to make a complete revolution around the sun
    The destruction of a city is a large
    event, but it is one which repeats itself several times in a thousand
    years; the destruction of a third part of a nation by plague and famine
    is a large event, but it has happened several times in history; the
    murder of a king is a large event, but it has been frequent.
  397. make
    perform or carry out
    Time has made some great changes since the Roman days.
  398. attention
    the act of concentrating on something
    Every
    child is pleased at being noticed; many intolerable children put in
    their whole time in distressing and idiotic effort to attract the
    attention of visitors; boys are always "showing off"; apparently all
    men and women are glad and grateful when they find that they have done
    a thing which has lifted them for a moment out of obscurity and caused
    wondering talk.
  399. effort
    use of physical or mental energy; hard work
    Every
    child is pleased at being noticed; many intolerable children put in
    their whole time in distressing and idiotic effort to attract the
    attention of visitors; boys are always "showing off"; apparently all
    men and women are glad and grateful when they find that they have done
    a thing which has lifted them for a moment out of obscurity and caused
    wondering talk.
  400. stone
    a lump or mass of hard consolidated mineral matter
    He is at the
    bottom of the human ladder, as the accepted estimates of degree and
    value go: a soiled and patched young loafer, without gifts, without
    talents, without education, without morals, without character, without
    any born charm or any acquired one that wins or beguiles or attracts;
    without a single grace of mind or heart or hand that any tramp or
    prostitute could envy him; an unfaithful private in the ranks, an
    incompetent stone-cutter, an inefficient lackey; in a word, a mangy...
  401. pretty
    pleasing by delicacy or grace; not imposing
    It is this madness
    for being noticed and talked about which has invented kingship and the
    thousand other dignities, and tricked them out with pretty and showy
    fineries; it has made kings pick one another's pockets, scramble for one
    another's crowns and estates, slaughter one another's subjects; it has
    raised up prize-fighters, and poets, and villages mayors, and little
    and big politicians, and big and little charity-founders, and bicycle
    champions, and banditti chiefs, and frontier de...
  402. away
    at a distance in space or time
    For one reason,
    there was then not much of a world to electrify; it was a small world,
    as to known bulk, and it had rather a thin population, besides; and for
    another reason, the news traveled so slowly that its tremendous initial
    thrill wasted away, week by week and month by month, on the journey, and
    by the time it reached the remoter regions there was but little of it
    left.
  403. sun
    the star that is the source of light and heat for the planets in the solar system
    At
    our best and stateliest we are not suns, as we pretended, and teach, and
    believe, but only candles; and any bummer can blow us out.
  404. word
    a unit of language that native speakers can identify
    When those amazing words struck upon my ear in this
    Austrian village last Saturday, three hours after the disaster, I knew
    that it was already old news in London, Paris, Berlin, New York, San
    Francisco, Japan, China, Melbourne, Cape Town, Bombay, Madras,
    Calcutta, and that the entire globe with a single voice, was cursing
    the perpetrator of it.
  405. there
    in or at that place
    For one reason,
    there was then not much of a world to electrify; it was a small world,
    as to known bulk, and it had rather a thin population, besides; and for
    another reason, the news traveled so slowly that its tremendous initial
    thrill wasted away, week by week and month by month, on the journey, and
    by the time it reached the remoter regions there was but little of it
    left.
  406. living
    pertaining to living persons
    It is an event which confers a curious distinction upon every individual
    now living in the world: he has stood alive and breathing in the
    presence of an event such as has not fallen within the experience of any
    traceable or untraceable ancestor of his for twenty centuries, and it
    is not likely to fall within the experience of any descendant of his for
    twenty more.
  407. at last
    as the end result of a succession or process
    Many
    a time during these seventeen centuries members of that family have
    been startled with the news of extraordinary events--the destruction
    of cities, the fall of thrones, the murder of kings, the wreck of
    dynasties, the extinction of religions, the birth of new systems of
    government; and their descendants have been by to hear of it and talk
    about it when all these things were repeated once, twice, or a dozen
    times--but to even that family has come news at last which is not staled
    b...
  408. the City
    the part of London situated within the ancient boundaries
    Anything to get notoriety; anything to set the village, or the township,
    or the city, or the State, or the nation, or the planet shouting,
    "Look--there he goes--that is the man!"
  409. race
    a contest of speed
    And it was within the privileges and powers of this
    sarcasm upon the human race to reach up--up--up--and strike from its far
    summit in the social skies the world's accepted ideal of Glory and Might
    and Splendor and Sacredness!
  410. third
    one of three equal parts of a divisible whole
    The destruction of a city is a large
    event, but it is one which repeats itself several times in a thousand
    years; the destruction of a third part of a nation by plague and famine
    is a large event, but it has happened several times in history; the
    murder of a king is a large event, but it has been frequent.
  411. London
    the capital and largest city of England
    When those amazing words struck upon my ear in this
    Austrian village last Saturday, three hours after the disaster, I knew
    that it was already old news in London, Paris, Berlin, New York, San
    Francisco, Japan, China, Melbourne, Cape Town, Bombay, Madras,
    Calcutta, and that the entire globe with a single voice, was cursing
    the perpetrator of it.
  412. system
    a group of independent elements comprising a unified whole
    Many
    a time during these seventeen centuries members of that family have
    been startled with the news of extraordinary events--the destruction
    of cities, the fall of thrones, the murder of kings, the wreck of
    dynasties, the extinction of religions, the birth of new systems of
    government; and their descendants have been by to hear of it and talk
    about it when all these things were repeated once, twice, or a dozen
    times--but to even that family has come news at last which is not staled
    b...
  413. longer
    for more time
    It was no longer a fresh event, it was a thing of the far past;
    it was not properly news, it was history.
  414. court
    an assembly to conduct judicial business
    And in five minutes' time, at no
    cost of brain, or labor, or genius this mangy Italian tramp has beaten
    them all, transcended them all, outstripped them all, for in time their
    names will perish; but by the friendly help of the insane newspapers and
    courts and kings and historians, his is safe and live and thunder in the
    world all down the ages as long as human speech shall endure!
  415. prince
    a male member of a royal family other than the sovereign
    Love
    is a madness; if thwarted it develops fast; it can grow to a frenzy
    of despair and make an otherwise sane and highly gifted prince, like
    Rudolph, throw away the crown of an empire and snuff out his own life.
  416. wonder
    the feeling aroused by something strange and surprising
    Every
    child is pleased at being noticed; many intolerable children put in
    their whole time in distressing and idiotic effort to attract the
    attention of visitors; boys are always "showing off"; apparently all
    men and women are glad and grateful when they find that they have done
    a thing which has lifted them for a moment out of obscurity and caused
    wondering talk.
  417. New York
    the largest city in New York State and in the United States
    When those amazing words struck upon my ear in this
    Austrian village last Saturday, three hours after the disaster, I knew
    that it was already old news in London, Paris, Berlin, New York, San
    Francisco, Japan, China, Melbourne, Cape Town, Bombay, Madras,
    Calcutta, and that the entire globe with a single voice, was cursing
    the perpetrator of it.
  418. win
    a victory (as in a race or other competition)
    He is at the
    bottom of the human ladder, as the accepted estimates of degree and
    value go: a soiled and patched young loafer, without gifts, without
    talents, without education, without morals, without character, without
    any born charm or any acquired one that wins or beguiles or attracts;
    without a single grace of mind or heart or hand that any tramp or
    prostitute could envy him; an unfaithful private in the ranks, an
    incompetent stone-cutter, an inefficient lackey; in a word, a mangy...
  419. hours
    an indefinite period of time
    When those amazing words struck upon my ear in this
    Austrian village last Saturday, three hours after the disaster, I knew
    that it was already old news in London, Paris, Berlin, New York, San
    Francisco, Japan, China, Melbourne, Cape Town, Bombay, Madras,
    Calcutta, and that the entire globe with a single voice, was cursing
    the perpetrator of it.
  420. every
    (used of count nouns) each and all of the members of a group considered singly and without exception
    It is an event which confers a curious distinction upon every individual
    now living in the world: he has stood alive and breathing in the
    presence of an event such as has not fallen within the experience of any
    traceable or untraceable ancestor of his for twenty centuries, and it
    is not likely to fall within the experience of any descendant of his for
    twenty more.
  421. real
    being or occurring in fact or actuality
    Without our clothes and our pedestals we are poor things
    and much of a size; our dignities are not real, our pomps are shams.
  422. forget
    dismiss from the mind; stop remembering
    And now we get realized to us once more another thing which we often
    forget--or try to: that no man has a wholly undiseased mind; that in
    one way or another all men are mad.
  423. ready
    completely prepared or in condition for immediate action or use or progress
    All the whole list of desires, predilections, aversions, ambitions,
    passions, cares, griefs, regrets, remorses, are incipient madness, and
    ready to grow, spread, and consume, when the occasion comes.
  424. York
    the English royal house that reigned from 1461 to 1485
    When those amazing words struck upon my ear in this
    Austrian village last Saturday, three hours after the disaster, I knew
    that it was already old news in London, Paris, Berlin, New York, San
    Francisco, Japan, China, Melbourne, Cape Town, Bombay, Madras,
    Calcutta, and that the entire globe with a single voice, was cursing
    the perpetrator of it.
  425. kill
    cause to die
    When this
    madness is in a mild form it is harmless and the man passes for sane;
    but when it develops powerfully and takes possession of the man, it can
    make him cheat, rob, and kill; and when he has got his fortune and lost
    it again it can land him in the asylum or the suicide's coffin.
  426. received
    widely accepted as true or worthy
    Since the telegraph first began to stretch itself
    wider and wider about the earth, larger and increasingly larger areas of
    the world have, as time went on, received simultaneously the shock of
    a great calamity; but this is the first time in history that the entire
    surface of the globe has been swept in a single instant with the thrill
    of so gigantic an event.
  427. go on
    move forward, also in the metaphorical sense
    Since the telegraph first began to stretch itself
    wider and wider about the earth, larger and increasingly larger areas of
    the world have, as time went on, received simultaneously the shock of
    a great calamity; but this is the first time in history that the entire
    surface of the globe has been swept in a single instant with the thrill
    of so gigantic an event.
  428. save
    bring into safety
    There are
    no healthy minds, and nothing saves any man but accident--the accident
    of not having his malady put to the supreme test.
  429. back
    the posterior part of a human (or animal) body
    One must go back
    about two thousand years to find an instance to put with this one.
  430. past
    earlier than the present time; no longer current
    It was no longer a fresh event, it was a thing of the far past;
    it was not properly news, it was history.
  431. think of
    devise or invent
    The more one thinks of the assassination, the more imposing and
    tremendous the event becomes.
  432. happen
    come to pass
    The destruction of a city is a large
    event, but it is one which repeats itself several times in a thousand
    years; the destruction of a third part of a nation by plague and famine
    is a large event, but it has happened several times in history; the
    murder of a king is a large event, but it has been frequent.
  433. long
    primarily spatial sense
    Many
    a time during these seventeen centuries members of that family have
    been startled with the news of extraordinary events--the destruction
    of cities, the fall of thrones, the murder of kings, the wreck of
    dynasties, the extinction of religions, the birth of new systems of
    government; and their descendants have been by to hear of it and talk
    about it when all these things were repeated once, twice, or a dozen
    times--but to even that family has come news at last which is not staled
    by use, ...
  434. chief
    the head of a tribe or clan
    It is this madness
    for being noticed and talked about which has invented kingship and the
    thousand other dignities, and tricked them out with pretty and showy
    fineries; it has made kings pick one another's pockets, scramble for one
    another's crowns and estates, slaughter one another's subjects; it has
    raised up prize-fighters, and poets, and villages mayors, and little
    and big politicians, and big and little charity-founders, and bicycle
    champions, and banditti chiefs, and frontier de...
  435. old
    having lived for a long time or attained a specific age
    The
    oldest family of unchallenged descent in Christendom lives in Rome and
    traces its line back seventeen hundred years, but no member of it has
    been present in the earth when an empress was murdered, until now.
  436. minute
    a unit of time equal to 60 seconds or 1/60th of an hour
    And in five minutes' time, at no
    cost of brain, or labor, or genius this mangy Italian tramp has beaten
    them all, transcended them all, outstripped them all, for in time their
    names will perish; but by the friendly help of the insane newspapers and
    courts and kings and historians, his is safe and live and thunder in the
    world all down the ages as long as human speech shall endure!
  437. throw
    propel through the air
    Love
    is a madness; if thwarted it develops fast; it can grow to a frenzy
    of despair and make an otherwise sane and highly gifted prince, like
    Rudolph, throw away the crown of an empire and snuff out his own life.
  438. character
    a property that defines the individual nature of something
    He is at the
    bottom of the human ladder, as the accepted estimates of degree and
    value go: a soiled and patched young loafer, without gifts, without
    talents, without education, without morals, without character, without
    any born charm or any acquired one that wins or beguiles or attracts;
    without a single grace of mind or heart or hand that any tramp or
    prostitute could envy him; an unfaithful private in the ranks, an
    incompetent stone-cutter, an inefficient lackey; in a word, a mangy...
  439. cause
    events that provide the generative force of something
    Every
    child is pleased at being noticed; many intolerable children put in
    their whole time in distressing and idiotic effort to attract the
    attention of visitors; boys are always "showing off"; apparently all
    men and women are glad and grateful when they find that they have done
    a thing which has lifted them for a moment out of obscurity and caused
    wondering talk.
  440. lost
    confused as to time or place or personal identity
    When this
    madness is in a mild form it is harmless and the man passes for sane;
    but when it develops powerfully and takes possession of the man, it can
    make him cheat, rob, and kill; and when he has got his fortune and lost
    it again it can land him in the asylum or the suicide's coffin.
  441. life
    the organic phenomenon that distinguishes living organisms
    The
    oldest family of unchallenged descent in Christendom lives in Rome and
    traces its line back seventeen hundred years, but no member of it has
    been present in the earth when an empress was murdered, until now.
  442. men
    the force of workers available
    And now we get realized to us once more another thing which we often
    forget--or try to: that no man has a wholly undiseased mind; that in
    one way or another all men are mad.
  443. age
    how long something has existed
    And in five minutes' time, at no
    cost of brain, or labor, or genius this mangy Italian tramp has beaten
    them all, transcended them all, outstripped them all, for in time their
    names will perish; but by the friendly help of the insane newspapers and
    courts and kings and historians, his is safe and live and thunder in the
    world all down the ages as long as human speech shall endure!
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