Word: crabbedness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Lest President Coolidge's statement be made to seem a pet of political temperament, Impresario Butler closed his lips tight, pocketed his incompleted jottings, left the Northwest. But before going to Canada for a vacation, he did say that Calvin Coolidge was not to be thought of as definitely...
The test being read-aloud-able-ness, this last is only natural, but it is also quite necessary. Now that Dean Briggs is gone, "Copey" is the last of a vanished style in Harvard professors, in professors anywhere, for that matter. He himself is Dickensian, with his piercing glance to...
Five years ago, the late Dr. William Romaine Newbold, University of Pennsylvania linguist and philosopher, declared that he had deciphered the crabbed symbols in which Roger Bacon, fearing for his life in the superstitious 13th Century, noted down his scientific experiments. Last week, at a meeting held in Dr. Newbold...
It has become the fashion for critics of higher education in the U. S. to point with pride to Oxford, whether they have ever been there or not, as the archetype of all that is liberal and humanistic in a university. Nor is the comparison without color on many academic...
This child who is credited with saying of James Cabell that "Jurgen is his most artistic conception", that "his name is destined to live, to become a classic", this infant who believes American literature a dreary waste and that the "classics" are so much tripe a this pig-tailed mistress...