Word: classics
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have still to examine the outcome of three words which are henceforth to be classic-Arbitration, Security and Disarmament. The deliberations of the Assembly have shown us that the spirit of the Protocol drawn up last year still lives and constitutes at present an ideal of conduct...
...assembly were many and frothed with "the three classic words." Lord Cecil uttered them for Britain, and added: "It is our business henceforward to be sternly practical. . . The League is the greatest international fact of our day." M. de Jouvenal uttered them for France, and added that nations must not go to sleep as the echoes of one war die away and expect to awake in safety as the next one rumbles in the offing, but must make mutual sacrifices to attain mutual gains...
Sunny. The much heralded and horribly expensive show to celebrate Marilyn Miller's return from classic comedy (Peter Pan) has finally appeared and made for itself a noble name. It is unquestionably the most lavish musical comedy ever assembled and seems to suffer only through an excess of talent. By the middle of the second act you actually become a little weary of seeing celebrities running on and off with brief lines and a song here and there. The show lacks unity and a focal interest. As a five-dollar vaudeville show, it is the very best. Miss Miller plays...
...clearly I am enabled to express myself I do not know; but of one thing I am quite convinced: That I should have suffered a far greater handicap in life than I have in the way of expression of thought, clarity of statement, had I not studied the classic languages. I realize that nobody is now paying any attention to them and that a man may be a Master of Arts with a mere smattering of Latin and no Greek whatever, but I am not convinced that the loss of these two languages is contributing to accurate English...
This magazine embodies an attempt to share the fat profits of the Golden Book, (TIME, Dec. 29) a publication which furnishes its readers with a monthly selection of stories, essays, poems, whatnot, reprinted from the works of classic and modern authors. About 75% of the material of the Golden Book is classic?25% culled second hand from the works of contemporary authors. The Famous Story Magazine bids for popularity by the simple process of inverting this formula...