Word: cravingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...York Journal, the cheap fiction magazines, or the novels of George Barr McCutcheon, Emerson Hough iand Rupert Hughes. Does a young man long for success and a "strong character," he can imagine he is acquiring these things from the American Magazine. Does a harassed and ineffectual "white collar slave" crave some denial of the harshness of existence, he has but to turn to the sermonettes and pepto-optimism concocted daily by Dr. Frank Crane and his prolific school. The literature of escape may draw the sarcastic fire of the critics, for it is untrue, badly written and inspires false hopes...
Rollo, in his famous visit to Cambridge, found much that bewildered him. Other newcomers have suffered the same confusion. Years ago, there was a simple way of giving Freshmen the advice and guidance which they crave. It consisted of a series of "Letters to a Freshman", now made famous along with the fame of their author. Combined with frequent editorial exhortations from the college periodicals, no new student could escape the enlightenment that was doled...