Word: bookishness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Houston with Keynoter Bowers, who combined pedantry with abuse on Republican Corruption. An editorial writer on the New York Evening World, Claude Gernade Bowers is a short, slim, dark, studious, scholarly, quiet man in his middle years. His specialty is early U. S. history. Like many a bookish man he has his villain-Alexander Hamilton-and his heroes-Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson. He gained fame as an exciting speaker last winter when Democrats celebrated Jackson Day in Washington. His assignment as Keynoter at Houston put an entire political party and a huge radio audience at the vocal disposal...
...deliberately, when it suited him to have Wagner pop out of the back-ground of his libretto as the great forerunner of himself?the great Strauss. The story, as it was played, followed an old Dutch legend of a mid-summer festival with bonfires & a burgomaster's daughter & a bookish boy too long boxed up. Philadelphia critics, as well as critics who had taken the pilgrimage from other cities, regretted that there was no consistent loveliness in the score, that Soprano Helen Stanley & Baritone Marcel Salzinger had had to sing alternate measures of beauty and chaff. But the whole they...
Last week I was all set to scold you for omitting some very good news from your last edition. In the first place you made no reference to "Guts" Thompson, Chicago's bookish mayor. I was even going to suggest that you run his picture on the front cover, but I was too late. The second piece of news omit ted was about Ruth Elder and her escapades...
Barnard was a Marblehead minister who donated his entire collection of books to the College upon the burning of the library about the middle of the eighteenth century. The Associates have banded together in order to discuss matters of mutual bookish interest: to hold exhibitions of valuable books belonging to Harvard men: and to print catalogues and papers which may serve to stimulate a more active interest in the objects of the society...
...promoter, onetime (1897-1921) editor of his grandfather's liberal weekly, The Independent. He became president of Rollins College? (TIME, Sept. 28, 1925) at Winter Park, Fla., and he proceeded to get Rollins mentioned soon and frequently in educational journals by abolishing lectures; instituting an informal course in things bookish; and coming out for frankness about professionalism in college athletics. He made Rollins College sound like a sensible little institution with no frills or fads about it. Nothing was far ther from the boom spirit of Florida and the spirit of gigantism in higher learning than this college at which...