Word: contention
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...enemies of good-will are on every hand. There are those who seek to find in every act a wrongful motive; who poison the air with suspicion; who will never be content...
...Gateway of the Moon. A little half-caste girl in the brackish underbrush of Bolivia falls in love with a British engineer, name of Arthur Wyatt. Far from shy, she immediately and as constantly as possible enwraps his torso with her physical charms. Finally, he is content to stay enwrapped...
This year, as in 1891 and in 1922, critics dispute his talents. To be sure they do it reverently as befits a colossus who has been endowed with intellect, imagination, magnetism. Yet they chide him gently for banging at the piano, for sliding over details and being content too often with broad jagged splashes of color, for limited programs that have been given over and over again. Paderewski takes no notice. He never reads the reviews of his concerts. His life is his own. He sits up far into the night, practices, plays cribbage with Mme. Paderewski, stays...
...which would yield Massachusetts more that its income tax and be far simpler to collect. She does not see why women should now be exempt from the poll tax. "The Next Question" is a stimulating and provocative book. It deserves the widest reading, even among those who are content with the tax system...
Another undergraduate literary supplement makes its how in the first appearance of "The Literary Critic" sponsored by the editors of The Dartmouth. Similar in form and content to its contemporaries at Yale, Princeton, New York University and Harvard, the publication aims, according to its prefatory editorial, to combine "usefulness and amusement". And, like the progeny of the above named journals it is obviously a collegiate imitation of the literary supplements of the metropolitan dailies a fact which in no way detracts from its worthiness and which. If successfully accomplished, enhances in value...