Word: agents
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...irritating criticism of Dreiser and others--that Americans cannot think--is partly supported by facts. The automatic tool, in the use of which a man repeats one motion over and over, has proved a powerful agent for fostering sub-normal intelligence--and strangely enough, really puts a premium on under-developed minds. The normal or highly-educated man does not perform mechanical tasks as expertly as the half-wit, so the latter flourishes and multiplies...
...Crompton and Stephenson, the chief pioneers in the industrial revolution which ushered in the entire mechanism of modern civilization? How long before the Wrights of the aeroplane, Bell of the telephone, Marconi of the wireless will be mere signposts marking the evolution of mechanical progress? They could not press agent themselves in immortal language and their memory will perish. But Dr. Johnson had a press agent in Boswell, Darwin had one in Huxley, and Benjamin Franklin, like Goethe, Leonardo, Dante and Cellini, was his own press agent. If you would have fame, "that last infirmity of noble minds," give...
...Arthur Conan Doyle: "I announced that I created 'Sherlock Holmes' to be my advance agent. Years ago I reasoned that, through Holmes, people would hear of me and would accordingly lend ready ear to my preaching...
...club has already sent down to New York one of their members as a publicity agent, who will be assisted by David Wallace, regular agent for Arthur Hopkins, a leading New York producer...
...boys. He tries to chloroform the cat, gets bad marks at school, is beloved. The daughter, Adelaide, is the high spot of the Pinney family. She is gifted with a budding intelligence which begins to blossom under the beneficent influence of her pleasant if uninteresting romance with a book agent whom she finally marries. Adelaide is the Carol Kennicott, the Lulu Bett, the Leda Perrin of Poor Pinney. She gropes vaguely for something outside the stuffy household of her youth...