Word: arens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lastly, it is getting increasingly hard to overlook one more truth. That is the net results of our regime are not all that might have been forecast from the precocious aptitude with which we detect the shortcomings of our predecessors. In other words we find we aren't so darned funny as we originally considered ourselves...
...course, there are some things that occasionally have to be 'theaterized' and lots of points aren't actual first-hand experience, but I always try to stick to nature, to do things naturally. Subjects related to humanity of today that's what I'm interested...
...stuff," declared R. C. Henderson, their spokesman, "you would get chucked out of any English dance for pulling such a steal. Why, you can't rush a real stunner for a minute without getting broken up by some lad. It's a regular scrim! And I say, if you aren't careful do you know, you might trot away the whole night with one partner. On and off on schedule is our ticket. Lots better...
...these aren't persons; they're mummies," complained Mr. Morse. "They were persons once, but you can't expect me to pay $10,000 for 100 past performances...
...after all aren't these attempts to bring American college machine to Robot-perfection too mechanistic and grubby? Unless treated as a professional school, college should attempt to do little more than awaken an interest in other people's grooves. In the mad rush for marks, details, for true-false examinations, authoritative quotations and the like, no one seems to lift his eyes above the Library spire. College should be sipped and enjoyed as a liqueur and not gulped down as rot-gut gin for pure animal excitation...