Word: boastfulness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Boston's brief and borrowed opera season has passed in a wave of enthusiasm. The Chicago company was hospitably received, and it departed with a cordial invitation to come again next year. Old music-lovers, recalling earlier days when the city could boast its native opera, were inclined to be suspicious of this imported product; but most of them had good sense enough not to cut off their ears to spite their faces, and made the best of what was offered them...
Professor Kittredge is without doubt the most distinguished scholar in the country who cannot boast the degree of Ph.D. there is a current superstition that he has never won it because none of his colleagues is learned enough to examine him. However, that may be, perhaps his lack of this burdensome dignity has helped to keep him free from the taint of pedantry and make him and entertaining lecturer in spite of his scholarship. It is safe to assert that his public lectures on the five great Shaksperian tragedies, to be given in Sanders Theatre this month will be much...
...degree has become almost a prerequisite. This passion for the mere letters of a degree is what William James once dubbed the "Ph.D. Octopus". Since his remark was written, a saner view has come into practice, but preference in filling professional positions still goes to the men who can boast of this advanced training...
...ultimate disappearance of footlights before the glare of motion-pictures has seemed at times probable. Thousands of smaller American communities once used to boast some sort of true stage--if it were only for an occasional appearance of little Eva and two cocker-spaniel blood-hounds -- where now a "Palace" of the "Silver Screen" throws its bright lights upon Main Street. And the advent of life like color into the "movies" is already tending to make their hold the more secure. But even the best created picture, as long as it cannot reproduce the human voice, must fall short...
...apparently "men of the hour" with splendid schemes conceived, have through lack of some essential quality, failed of success; Kerensky, for instance, to come no nearer our own shores. But to her sorrow Italy has for the last decade, not been gladdened by even a glorious failure. She can boast of many men of talent but, if we except d'Annunzio's captivating but obstructive insanity, none of genius...