Word: ageing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...contains a farrago of insinuations and trivialities, many of them untrue. For example, Dr. Faunce appreciates a good cigar and keeps a box of one of the best brands always ready to enjoy with his friends. The appointment of Percy Marks was terminated before the publication of The Plastic Age. Neither Chinese nor Negroes are numerous at Brown, although her gates are open to both, and should be so in a land of equal opportunity. Far from being undistinguished in his undergraduate days, Faunce was one of the leading scholars in his class. You ought to know better than...
...Significance. That the happiest extant combination of word and tune so often and so narrowly escaped disintegration titillates thousands of Savoyards.* And they marvel at the paradox that the Topsy-Turvy Twins are actually product of the Victorian Age. The fitness of this origin, and the reasons for continued popularity in a totally disparate age, are logically developed in the present duo-biography. An informative digest of material scattered in diverse enthusiastic G. and S. literature, The Story is designed for the uninitiated rather than the hobbyist Savoyard. The narrative of two colorful careers in discord and in unison...
...clear the Occidental air of "yellow peril" the distinguished Chinese philosopher, Hu Shih, denies, startlingly, conclusively, that the Western machine-age man controlled, is "materialistic" while the Oriental hand-to-mouth, disease-ridden existence is "spiritual," and therefore potentially superior...
...education, alas, so much is expected that the distracted modern university publishes a catalogue quite as alluring as Sears Roebuck's. Everett Dean Martin deplores an educational system which, pandering to a materialistic age, offers equal "credit" for a course in Aristotle's Ethics and another in High Power Salesmanship. But the fault lies not so much with the age as with the perennial lack of a consistent philosophy of education...
...life and stand side by side with the portrait and not resemble it he would be called an impostor." Also included are the portraits of the first five Presidents, painted on mahogany panels planned to resemble the texture of canvas; the first painting ever done by Stuart (at the age of 12); the alleged last painting he ever did (of Mrs. John Forrester); that of Commodore Oliver Hazzard Perry...