Word: cared
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Falls is the outside of homes. . . . What is the atmosphere of an American home? How do parents and children get on? What attitude has a boy on the fifth floor of an apartment building toward his small sister lying in her crib by the window? How much is the care of these children left to nursemaids...
...long talk with his father, Daniel Guggenheim about the latter's Fund for the Promotion of Aeronautics which the former has been administering. They discussed the things they had done for aeronautics, the things they wanted to do. A half-million dollars more, they decided, would take care of the final odds & ends of their cultural-industrial project. Then they could consider their self-imposed job done. Dec. 31 this year would be a good day to mark the Fund's end. So they decided, and so Harry Guggenheim announced last week...
...proud, satanic figure of Bodanzky. Like a precocious, shy, near-sighted schoolboy he came out from under the stage, wangled his way almost apologetically through the string-players, bowed to a cordial hand-clapping. Out went the lights. He chose a baton from the rack and began a careful, orthodox Vorspiel. Care alone, however, could not make it clean, clear-cut. Sometimes it raced confusedly, as did parts of the opera which followed. Occasionally it groped and dragged. Never, obviously, was there an attempt for theatric effect. A left hand floating in an aimless way kept the instruments subdued...
...which continued: "The Post Office Department realizing that much desirable reading matter was going to waste which many persons, who perhaps could not afford to subscribe to as many magazines as they would like, will welcome an opportunity to purchase copies of current magazines at a nominal cost. . . . Extreme care has been exercised in selecting or grouping these magazines, and each member of the family will find reading matter that will appeal to his or her taste...
...When we speak of a snob, we mean one who can act as an individual, who can deviate from the footsteps of the crowd, and not care what other people think. I admire Harvard for going its own way without trying to curry favor. It is a highly self-sufficient institution, not trying to follow the crowd. It does things as a gentleman. It does not have individual snobbishness in the ordinary sense of the word. Snobbery is one of the oldest Harvard traditions; a genuine snob will be either reactionary or radical, not conservative or liberal...