Word: comparison
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...maker of this flattering comparison was the U. S. Ambassador to Belgium, suave Hugh Simons Gibson, who represented the U. S. before the League. The new hero, the orator who was discovered to resemble Cicero, is Baron Cushendun, who last fall replaced Viscount Cecil of Chelwood at Geneva...
...that the old maxim of "Spare the rod and spoil the child" has quite gone out of fashion of late. Its is easy to say that a college student is no longer a child: maybe not, in the accepted sense of the word, but he certainly is intellectually, in comparison to those professors whose duty it is to guide him on the paths of learning...
...might be were it not what it is. In recent years Herbert George Wells has held the monopoly in fatiloquent speculation; here is another's prediction, and logical enough, geologically, anthropologically. But Deluge announces itself not as a prophetic tract on social philosophy, but as romance, thus defying comparison with The Republic of Plato, or More's Utopia, or even Gulliver's Travels. The author does indeed seem to advocate demagogy, and polygamy; does indeed say his say against the established practice of medicine and law, and the fashion of childlessness. But all so casually that...
...Orange foilsmen have not had a successful season, and no real comparison can be made between the two teams as a result of their matches with Pennsylvania. Both have been overcome by the Quakers by comparatively close scores, the University foilsmen going down to defeat...
...Showdown," now on view at the Metropolitan, is obviously modelled on the first Bancroft-Brent opus. Unfortunately it doesn't quite come off: it is an entertaining film and in places a very good film, but it suffers by comparison. Bancroft looks extremely roguish and in spite of the fact that he is cast as a Diamond in the Rough he manages to leave the impression of good clean villainy. Miss Brent, playing a girl reeking with refinement for the first part of the picture, redeems herself by going slightly but uncontrollably native in the latter half. Which brings...