Word: copybook
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...orphic language and with copybook maxims, they all attempt the peculiarly American feat of relating the arcane and the infinite with dollar-&-cents success. Some New Thought member organizations: the League for Larger Life; Unity (TIME, July 25); Divine Science; the Fellowship of Life Abundant...
...Teuton looks down on a canaille of unwashed peasants; the Italian recoils from the Nordic boor whose barbarous jargon hurts Dantesque eardrums. The two flags cannot wave together for long. Compared with the noble Roman fasces, Hitler's Aryan swastika is a scrawl from a child's copybook...
...Second Mrs. Tanqueray was no such baleful figure for Maugham. If Lady Kitty has a mission, it is to avert tragedy, not foment it. But knowing human beings, Maugham cynically foils her, shows how the sins of the mothers, far from being visited upon succeeding generations, become their copybook maxims. And knowing the theatre as well, Maugham makes his demonstration witty and compact-a lesson for playwrights if not for reckless wives...
...suspected of being Voronsky's chattel. She falls in love with Richard Dix who spurns her, until in the last reel they all escape with surprising ease to the river. No credible picture of modern China, Roar of the Dragon is fair melodrama. White men and women maintain copybook virtues in the unspeakable shadow of Mongol bloodlust. Typical dialog: "You don't know Voronsky." "Only casually; I just...
Moreover, he revised copybook maxims for his own purposes to: "Never do today what by any means you can put off until tomorrow, and never do yourself what you can get anyone else to do half as well as you can." But the Scripps brain did not idle with the Scripps body. He had another, a compensatory maxim which proved a true success formula: "Be ready with the right decision when the deciding time comes...