Word: corrective
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...What sum did critics lately agree was the correct gratuity for a common shave...
...George Wagner has shaved the face of William H. English, Manhattan banker, accompanying him on business trips in his private car, journeying to his home to shave him on Sundays. Last week Banker English gave Barber Wagner a two months' holiday in Europe. Was this, people asked, the correct tip for Mr. Wagner's period of service? What is the right pourboire for a 25c shave? For $1 worth of shave, haircut and conversation? The tip for a 25c shave is ten cents, critics recently agreed. A talkative barber may be snubbed with...
...shimmer to the white shadow of a cliff patched by a marvelous tiny woman, waiting, orchards in May, acres of blossoms pale and adream with the promise of bees and a deathless summer. Often he would paint two or three pictures on the same canvas; starting to correct a defect in a pastoral scene, a new idea would seize him, he would change cows into rocks, grass into whirling waves, and a chip of moon became a mad sun leering like an eyeball in the forehead of a vast, demented skyscape. Nothing made him so angry as praise of pictures...
...away still worried, depressed, edgy. At last their parents spotted a paragraph in the newspapers: "Grading of College Applicants Delayed. . . ." Their tension remained, but the 11,000 at least understood that the College Entrance Examination Board had not forgotten them, that it was delayed in its terrible function of correcting the nervously scribbled "books" of 22,000 would-be matriculants to Vassar, Smith, Princeton, Yale, Wellesley, Harvard, etc., owing to the facts: that the scribbling was not finished until June 21; that the 700 teachers, who correct the papers at a cost of about...
...working through all the forms of thought in Francis Bacon's "province." His theory often outran his data but in the main he preserved for philosophy its touch with things practical. Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) was "the child of Darwin and the brother of Bismarck." He sought to "correct" his pious, feminine nature by glorifying ruthless masculinity, the survival of the strongest. He ascended the Engadine and sent down his poetic prophet, "Zarathustra," to announce the death of the gods, the birth of supermen and the doctrine, "live dangerously." He was last of the Romantics. And so to contemporary...