Word: cordialities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Metropolitan Opera; to lunch sumptuously in Banker Otto Hermann Kahn's elegant dining room (see cut). Said he upon sailing: ''The two outstanding things in my visit . . . were meeting O'Neill and attending Mourning Becomes Electra. . . Americans have such easiness of approach. You are cordial and dignified without being stiff and conventional. Your phrase-'Be Yourself -I believe it is slang-seems a fair index of your attitude. It is good Ibsen...
Sirs: Capt. Charles P. Smith's (Candidate for Congressman-at-large, Henderson, Texas) cordial invitation to you to take toll of your intestinal fortitude and decide whether or not you could withstand a visit to Impeacher Patman's district is untimely. Lacking or not lacking in intestinal fortitude, I am not lacking in my knowledge of Cass County. TIME'S statement is correct. There are hillbillies in Cass County. Lovable ones, however, and politicians. Rabbits have been cornered in hollow logs in Patman's district. And snuff (between lower lip and teeth, perhaps Levi Garett...
...reached the U. S. last week. They discussed their attempts to rescue the Modern Man. Chief feature of the conference was a one-act play presented by the British delegates, in which the Modern Man is approached by a Fundamentalist with an enormous Bible, a pompous Anglo-Catholic, a cordial member of the Buchman Groups, a Modernist who cuts most of his Bible into little bits. None succeeds in rousing Modern Man from his sleep. At last comes a Barthian. He is successful...
...episcopal visitations next March. He wrote Dr. Guthrie that the abandonment of dances was hardly "willing compliance with any official and canonical requests." hoped that there would be no further "disturbed relations." Dr. Guthrie addressed a formal reply to "The Bishop's Palace," assured his bishop "a most cordial welcome...
...again last month, by Dr. Abraham Flexner (TIME, Dec. 15, 1930; Dec. 14). From another educator last week came similar but more polite strictures in The Theory of Education in the U. S., by Albert Jay Nock (Harcourt, Brace: $2). But Dr. Nock, unlike Dr. Flexner, is a cordial admirer of President Butler, a graduate (1892) of Columbia's offspring, St. Stephen's College at Annadale-on-Hudson, N. Y., where he is now visiting professor of U. S. history and politics.- Dr. Nock's book, delivered as the Page-Barbour lectures last year at the University...