Word: axiom
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Perhaps the most venerated axiom of criticism is the theory that the pass of time invariably sifts good pictures from bad, destroys the latter, and holds up the former to the admiration of succeeding generations. It is a comforting theory. It convinces the connoisseur of his good taste, and solaces the nameless artist for years of neglect. Just why it should be believed remains a mystery, for all too often the evidence points to its converse. Artificial flowers last longest." Thus, some years ago, wrote a critic. Last week his view was given singular proof in a London auction room...
...York. The delicate art of corrupting public officers has been taken up in New York by purveyors of milk and poultry. It is an axiom of the chicken business that to sell polluted fowls you must first pollute the city inspectors. This seems to have been accomplished by a poultry graft ring during the administration of the widely known onetime Mayor Hylan, at which time there also chanced to be an epidemic of chicken cholera. Last week Mayor Walker and his friends discussed whether or not they could afford to investigate the thing. It was right in their own party...
Caillaux. The continual re-emergence out of disaster of this sly magnetic son of a rich "landed politician," has become a paradox turned axiom in French politics. For example...
Money Talks (Owen Moore-Claire Windsor). It is an axiom of the movies that any man who starts the picture poor and shows enough initiative must end the picture rich. The process herein is advertising; the advertised product, a sanitarium. The young man sells "bracing air at $2 a sniff," and most of the comedy occurs on a voyage of the first shipload of patients to the haven. They are set upon by rum-runners, whom the young man defeats by dressing as a girl and touching the hard captain's heart. Claire Windsor, as the young...
...cloth with a gusto possessed recently by the Six and drank ginger beer between cigarettes. I might have for the moment in the dashing delightful and all that sort of thing place one reads about in tabloid newspapers coming home on the subway. I wasn't. It is an axiom that the most devilmaycare gesture allowed one now is to get arrested for drunken driving. And one can't buy a car on the pay from staying in nights writing this sort of thing while the Choral Society correlates...