Word: adler
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...intrepidity could be traced through these four periodicals in the order of their appearance, from Casanova Jr.'s Tales, which were shipped to customers by sly express, to Beau which contained advertising from eminently respectable tradesmen, such as Cluett, Peabody & Co., Inc. (collars, shirts) and Levy Bros. & Adler-Rochester (good suitings). Casanova Jr.'s Tales, edited by one Francis Page, advertised stimulating material by Aubrey Beardsley, Catulle Mendès and Casanova himself ("hitherto obtainable only in editions costing from $50 to $500"). It republished My First Thirty Years by Gertrude Beasley, with assurance that these charming revelations...
While all this was going on last week, a calm-souled, religiously-minded group of people in Manhattan were quietly celebrating a 50th anniversary. They were the loosely organized followers of Dr. Felix Adler...
...half century ago Dr. Adler (he was then the 25-year-old, brilliant professor of Hebrew and Oriental literature at Cornell) came to realize, as so many academic gentlemen have, that an instructor, raised aloof on his daïs, has little influence on the ethical conceptions of his students. He had developed a conception of human conduct which asserted "the supreme importance of the ethical factor in all the relations of life -personal, social, national and international-apart from any theological or metaphysical consideration." But his class duties hampered him in the propagation of this ideal. So with rather...
...skyscrapers will be painted brilliant contrasting shades to relieve the drabness of stone, the depression of congested life," declared Decorator Helen Adler...
...Adler started the Ethical Movement in 1876, and has ever since been its active leader. His numerous books. Some of which have been translated into several European languages and Japanese, include "An Ethical Philosophy of Life," "Marriage and Divorce," "More Instruction of Children", and last "The Reconstruction of the Spiritual Ideal" containing the Hibbert Lectures he gave at Oxford since he last spoke in Boston...