Word: classics
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...observers, nonetheless, believe Cardinal Innitzer is no timeserver but a sincere, bewildered wrong-guesser who believed that Catholicism could honestly come to terms with Hitlerism. Praising the Cardinal's attempts at conciliation, the Commonweal said last week of his experience at Konigsbrunn: "It is one of the few classic tragedies in our melodramatic...
...great consulter of the public, John Cotton Dana sat him down in 1914 and in 15 homely chapters cut through the welter of U. S. snobbery and callowness about Art. In his classic American Art: How It Can be Made to Flourish, he observed that the ability to tell a well-designed teacup should precede precious talk about Giotto; and he urged the purchase and study of contemporary work by U. S. designers and artists. The Museum lived up to this so consistently that in 1925, when Dana was in Italy and a rich Newark lady sent him $10.000 with...
...Heiser quoted a now-classic experiment : "Sir Robert McCarrison established in India [in the early 1920s] a thoroughly healthy rat colony. The [1,189] stock rats were fed a diet similar to that eaten by certain peoples of northern India, among whom are some of the finest physical specimens of mankind. The diet consisted of whole-wheat flour, unleavened bread lightly smeared with fresh butter, sprouted Bengal gram (legume), fresh raw carrots and cabbage, unboiled whole milk, a small ration of raw meat with bones once a week. . . . During two and a quarter years [about 70 years for human beings...
...three. Balance like me. You're quite a fairy but you have your faults. While your left foot is lazy, your right foot is crazy, But don't be un'azy, I'll learn you to waltz. (Singing this icky classic, Mistress Shirley properly says "teach" instead of "learn...
...them was of such vitality that nearly a century later it is making money for Samuel Goldwyn. Of the seven novels the Brontë sisters produced, Emily's Withering Heights has been hung up to dry as a movie, and Charlotte's Jane Eyre is a pickled classic. The darkling moodiness of these books reflects the Brontes' unnatural seclusion in an English village parsonage, where genius was forced like strawberries in a hothouse. The three girls, who were intended to be housewives, reached fame; their only brother, Patrick Branwell Brontë, for whom a "pattern for genius...