Word: concern
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Teachers have been the special concern of Olive M. Jones of Manhattan, onetime (1924) N. E. A. president. They should be pensioned, housed, cared for. Miss Jones asked and received authority to accept money given in support of her survey and old-teachers'-home-building activity...
Churchmen therefore were justly irate to discover that their newspapers had copied the list from "Church Business," an eight-page advertising leaflet published by the Duplex Co. of Richmond, Va. This concern makes envelopes to contain church-money offerings...
...reasons for not presenting myself to the Academy? They concern me alone. Look here. Here are my books, my Demosthenes, my garden. I have lived my life and I can confide to you what now is my one principle: one must never tell what one feels, knows or sees. That is why I am not going to talk under the cupola of the Academy. That is why I shall continue to commune with myself in silence. In my day the journalists did the talking for the public. These days the public talks for the journalists...
...Manhattan, where tall buildings have begun to cause concern, the Broadway Association last week noted, on the basis of new surveys, that every story of a skyscraper brought 1,000 more people to a neighborhood. But land is so dear on Manhattan Island that buildings must be tall to earn enough income for expenses. Thus last week Irwin S. and Henry I. Chanin, constructors, announced that their new building at Lexington Ave. and 42nd St. would be 625 feet, 52 stories high. The location is as costly as land within the "Broadway district," a strip of streets about 200 blocks...
...Significance. Author Jameson contradicts the conceit which makes many women writers concentrate on the opposite sex. Her best characters have all been women. Her themes, it is true, often concern women doing men's work, organizing their lives toward a new freedom. The Lovely Ship in manner bears some resemblance to the writings of Joseph Hergesheimer, but Miss Jameson is more interested in making her people live than in describing ten-course dinners. Her performance in this book is one of almost pure perfection. An intention beautifully realized excuses an occasional prolixity. An infrequent weakness is overbalanced by Miss...