Word: contentedness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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And yet, in spite of low salary and non-union hours, "the intellegensia as is" seems contented with its lot. Philosophers have always proclaimed the joys of "thought for thought's sake", and have extended a general invitation to all who cared to listen. The fact that few have heeded...
In the days when the great schoolmen of the thirteenth century waged hotly contented theological battles through the monasteries on the number of angles who could dance on the point of a needle or the physical relation of Hell to Heaven the proposed canonization of a pious son of he...
Perhaps they are innocent, even of plotting the disorders; but the statement of one of them made recently to the effect that he could not guarantee to control his men, if some steps of reconciliation were not undertaken, seems rather significant. Even supposing that the revolvers were for self, defense...
Again the beauties of the grand humanitarian system of protecting and encouraging crime are manifested to a grateful public. The police were misguided enough to interfere with some young professionals for trying to break into a fur shop. One young man was shot fatally. In 1916 he had been convicted...
Years ago, Boston had an opera company of its own, that had a wide-spread reputation for meritorious work. However, through characteristic Boston indifference, this company was allowed to disintegrate and since then, local music lovers have been perforce contented with occasional barnstorming tours of the Chicago Association, or with...