Word: deale
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Character. "We are placing a great deal of emphasis on prosperity. Our people ought to desire to be prosperous, but it ought not to be their main desire. There are other things that they ought to want more. Prosperity is not a cause; it is a result It is all summed up in a single word. It is character...
Whimsically, he suggested an investigation by Congress. Whereupon, Secretary of Agriculture Jardine, hitherto unknown as a humorist, replied: "So far as I know the horses and the cows as well as the mules are surviving the ordeal, some of them even kicking up their heels and showing a great deal of spirit. As for the goats-I still have mine...
...four years of college work. In consequence we have to recognize in our curriculum not only the business subjects, but also those 'educational universals' which should be in the possession of every educated man. I have found many experiments being tried at the Harvard Business School with a great deal of interest, as they will help us solve our own problems at the University of Pennsylvania...
...myself," said Miss Bainter, when questioned regarding her own favorite type--of play, "I like joyous, dumb things, you know. I haven't decided whether I will be a great emotional actress or not. There is a great deal of satisfaction to be derived from the healthy laughter of an audience...
Just as English drawing room comedies invariably deal with monocles and manners, French plays of the same genre invariably deal with manners and mistresses. The present consideration is no exception. Though it may conceivably have possessed a true Parisian twinkle in its French original, it has so suffered in transmigration that in its present form it holds little laudable except the heroic efforts of a good company to bring back the pennies that the Messrs. Shubert inadvertently cast upon the waters...