Word: books
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...progress" of democracy. Arthur Garfield Hays reaffirms his faith in our system. It works not because it fits a "philosophical blueprint," but because through selection and adoption it is responsive not to any one but to all pressure groups. Though not of lasting importance and lacking in polish, his book is full of hope and thoroughly convincing at a time when people need conviction...
With humor and wit throughout. Professor Mott easily handles the thousand details and the prolonged research that has gone into the book, and puts forth a work that is at once scholarly and readable...
...evening of a House dance. In the Library, lights were low, the fire blazing, a radio softly cooing. Happy couples were resting from the ardors of the dance, enjoying the soothing half-darkness. Amidst it all sat the librarian at his desk, a stern, uncompromising figure, bending over a book, "It Can't Happen Here...
...years ago, Leo Calvin Rosten, 31, Polish-born teacher, humorist, researcher, social scientist, won pseudonymous fame as Leonard Q. Ross, author of The Education of H*Y*M*A*N K*A*P*L*A*N. When that book appeared, Author Rosten was in Washington, working on a serious journalistic survey, The Washington Correspondents. Sly Author Rosten enjoyed hearing correspondents chuckle over Hyman Kaplan, ask who Leonard Q. Ross might be. Afraid they might not take his research job seriously if they knew, Author Rosten kept...
...would just as soon "let George do it" for a few dollars. One slacker in the student body tends to ruin the morale of the whole, since such a one can boast to his working comrades, "I got a B out of old so-and-so without cracking a book...