Word: dears
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...breaks his hand, but is rescued by his friends before further damage can be done. During the game, handicapped by the pain in his hand, he fails to come up to the expectations of Western cohorts, in fact, he drops a last minute pass that would have won for dear old Western. For the benefit of the gum-chewing habitues of Boston's second balconies, however, the ending is a happy...
...wanted to know if the President would allow him to name the bells in Lowell House tower the "Roosevelt Carillon." The President dictated a letter of acceptance to the house master of Lowell House, his old friend and former teacher Dr. Julian Lowell Coolidge, to which Professor Coolidge replied: "Dear Franklin: "Your nice letter of March twentieth perturbed me greatly, the one clear point being that I must write you a letter of humble apology. The fact is, you have been made a victim of what the French call 'a mystification,' in other words a piece of undergraduate...
...work. Her sister goes to see Frank Rocci, the poultry racketeer with an income of a half million a year, and asks him for old time's sake in the ash cans to get Joan a job in a chorus. Frank is regular, procures a position for the dear 'girl in Texas Kaley's night club and forgets her until he sees her in action: she is too wonderful so the hard boiled gangster loses his grim equanimity and his heart in a gentlemanly fashion. Before niches have found their indisputable positions under Joan's eyelashes, she is the headliner...
...most unromantic procedure. Like fishing or travel, the idea is more exciting than the act. Or so finds Max Christmann (Tonio Selwart, an ingratiating actor of the Francis Lederer type), a Hessian deserter to the cause of Liberty & Equality. Mistress Prudence, having invited him to bed because firewood is dear, climbs in with her clothes on, sits there with the blanket wrapped about her in the manner of a lap robe and, as a final guarantee of innocence, pulls down a centreboard between them. All this provides Mr. & Mrs. Langner with plenty of material for salty preliminary lines, occupies...
Humanism is a great deal more than an attitude toward art and letters. It has a sociology as important as its psychology. Aristotle's social animal is permitted by the humanist to have a safe refuge, the "Civitas Del, so dear to the Middle Ages, from the potential tyranny of his incorporated fellow animals, the State. A monism which can find nothing outside of that unity of which the social group is an essential part can find no sphere outside of which the State is not supreme. Hence, says your good humanist, intense nationalism...