Word: ade
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...exterior of the wing has been the result of an ingenuous engineering feat. There stood from 1822 to 1914 one of the most beautiful façades in America-that of the old U. S. Assay office. Business caused its destruction. Art has preserved it. Every stone of the façade was carefully numbered, transported to the museum. It has been reproduced as the South Façade of the American Wing...
Journalists are like the unfortunate Englishman of American descent in George Ade's fable--"neither the one thing nor the other." Theirs is not a trade like brass-polishing or carpentering, which require long apprenticeships. The fact that any untrained man can become a good reporter within a very few months has made it difficult for journalism to rise to the rank of a profession. And where there is ease of entrance, there will be found many undesirable candidates. Mr. H. L. Menoken, in a burst of constructive criticism says that newspaper men must control the various schools of journalism...
...raise the academic standards of the college is a wise and necessary procedure; but the lifting pressure should be exerted at the bottom-during the first year-not at the topic. Then too, to use George Ade, "in uplifting, get underneath:" The manner in which the Divisional examinations are made out, and the alrenuousness with which they are marked are, after all, only the most external of reforms. What needs changing is not the student's scholarship, but his way of looking at scholarship. And that change can be brought about only by the lectures and adhereats of scholarship themselves...
Among the men that developed under Mr. Lawson's tutelage were Eugene Field, George Ade, John T. McCutcheon, Ray Stannard Baker, Peter B. Kyne, Frank B. Noyes...
...Jewish Palestine Exploration Society, under Dr. Slousch, excavated the so-called tombs of Absalom and Jehoshaphat, dated about the 4th Century B. C., in the ancient cemeteries east of Jerusalem. Orthodox Jewish fanatics opposed the work until a wall collapsed exposing the façade of the tomb of Jehoshaphat...