Word: applauding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Filipinos of Chicago, applaud your gesture in placing our president's picture on the cover of your magazine (TIME...
...faddists who go in for cork & chicken wire interiors and applaud any edifice devoid of decoration as an example of "modern" architecture realize that "modern" architecture is more than a half century old, has possibly already entered its senescence. So old is "modernism," in fact, that its first master died eleven years ago. Last week his first biography was in the hands of students and a few others interested in the life and works of Louis Henry Sullivan. A professor of art and archeology at Dartmouth, Hugh Morrison, author of Louis Sullivan,* was naturally more interested in Sullivan...
Whether they applaud or snort at his political outpourings, most U. S. citizens were grateful to Mark Sullivan last week for a tremendous twelve-year job of historical research and reminiscence which he had just brought to completion. In the six fat volumes and 3,740 pages of Our Times, of which Volume VI ("The Twenties") was published last week,* Author Sullivan has presented a superb newsreel of the U. S. from 1900 to 1925-its heroes, its villains, its ideas, its sensations, its fun, fads & fancies. "The purpose of this narrative," wrote he in the first sentence of Volume...
...nature of the American Democracy to harbor a governing class . . . and yet most of us could wish that politics in this country attracted more of those men and women whose upbringing and education best fit them for public office. . . . It is . . . in order to applaud a young man like Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. . . . and to see in his ambition to emulate the example of his illustrious grandfather a portent of brighter days. For Mr. Lodge, we believe, is of the kind of stuff to leaven the lump of mediocrity that burdens our national councils...
...Cambridge, Mass. Harvard University has announced that it will increase or diminish (I have forgotten which) the size of its diplomas. All true friends of education will applaud this great forward step...