Word: chautauquas
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wayward, the abnormal of this world. In philosophy their knowledge of our flesh-faults is a heavy balance wheel to the tangents of our loose idealism. As critics of society, they tend to hush the hallelujah chorus, introducing sardonic groans for those imperfections of mankind at which the Chautauqua-shouters, sniffing the electric air of a millennium, flap their coattails. The true earnest of a physician's worth outside his consulting room* is therefore the degree to which he refrains from hollow croaking; the degree to which he is conscious and confident of sound normality among the masses from...
...These aims are strikingly parallel to those of the U. S. F. A., and as such they are to be commended. Furthermore an association which includes on its executive committee shoulder to shoulder, a Y. W. C. A. leader and a Milwaukee banker-philanthropist, a university president and a Chautauqua manager, a Standard Oil executive and a Trades Union League director, the secretary of the American Library Association and the Chairman of the Ford Ball Forum, inadvertently demonstrates the potential usefulness of organized educational cooperation in most striking fashion...
Bland and beneficent, the Commission on International Justice and Good Will of the Federal Council of Churches assembled last week at Chautauqua, N. Y., to talk about the brotherhood of nations, broader visions, service, sympathy, etc., etc. Among the addresses was that of the Rev. Dr. Edward Shillito of England. His most widely discussed point...
...Miami, Fla., a righteous, Chautauqua-looking gentleman recently enjoyed a vacation under the cocoanut trees-his first long rest in 30 years. Automobilists who had Nebraska license plates (25,000 of them, he said) came to him, urged him to come home and run for the governorship. Charles Wayland Bryan, Baptist, Odd Fellow, Woodman, onetime Governor of Nebraska, Democratic Vice Presential candidate in 1924, has returned to his home. He now stands unopposed for the Democratic nomination. Against him the Republicans will probably nominate (in the primaries August 10) Governor Adam McMullen. The political recrudescence of the brother...
...they would say in Miami or Los Angeles, "kept pace with the march of progress." It is still an old Spanish town. Its population is only 7,500 including some progressive citizens. Recently its Chamber of Commerce issued an invitation to women leaders to establish a sort of Chautauqua to which clubwomen from surrounding states might come for three months each summer. Permanent buildings were to be erected, and it was expected some 3,000 would annually visit there. Merchants were pleased. Then the storm broke. Artists of many kinds who had gone to Santa Fe to make...