Word: conscious
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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During N'Gi's illness the U. S. Press became ape-conscious. In Washington another gorilla, named O'Kero, fell ill of a cold, recovered, as did two chimpanzees, Teddy and Jo-Jo. These episodes were reported far & wide, but nowhere did a U. S. writer wax so eloquent as did Colyumist "Doc" Adams of the Honolulu Star-Bulletin upon the death last month of a goitrous orang-outang named Jennie. Colyumist Adams wrote the following elegy...
Professor Eastman quoted the late Professor Gerald Birney Smith: "Protestantism has suddenly become conscious of the inartistic quality of many phases of its portrayal of religion. . . . If Protestantism is worth preserving it can be preserved only as it shall be made as obviously dignified and worthy as Catholicism. But this dignifying of Protestantism cannot be a mere imitation. . . ." Poetry Society. Catholicism is well aware that it is "dignified and worthy." Like Author Ludwig Lewisohn (see p. 55) it knows that poems as well as masses save souls. There is in the U. S. a Catholic Writers Guild. Last year there...
...Kept right." He managed to sell Australians gum by changing the name to "chewing sweets for "gum" was connected with "glue." He has not yet solved the problem of making Orientals chew gum instead of betel nut. To do so would mean 200,000,000 new customers already chew-conscious...
They Don't Mean Any Harm. Of recent years there has developed a school of British dramatists and fictioneers who undertake to demonstrate how spontaneously charming certain of their characters can be by making those characters engage in endless, silly, self-conscious horseplay. Jack plays Jill is Queen Mary, or Jill plays Jack is trying to sell her a set of dirty picture cards outside the Invalides. Simultaneously there has developed a large U. S. audience whose reaction to this sort of thing is angry boredom. If you happen to be a member of this audience, you had better...
...winds. He was developing a new technique; a sort of mongrel breed, half Swiss, half Norwegian. Schnieder declared, "I don't care how I get down a hill, so long as I reach the bottom standing up!" With the spread of this Arlberg method New England has become Ski-conscious. The interest and necessary nerve have been with us now for two winters, but, till just recently, there has been no American book describing any skiing method. Charley Proctor, formerly of Dartmouth, Intercollegiate Champion of 1927 and of the American Olympic Ski Team of 1928 has filled this crying need...