Word: earthly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...chorus. A tower of Babel type was quickly erected on the editorial pages of the Nation's newspapers. Editoriailzers who had learned to say "Yes," said "Yes" again, flew the eagle proudly over the waters of the earth, pointed the finger of scorn at all who opposed the aggrandizement of U. S. shipping, dubbed them "Little Americans...
...these extremes has freedom of thought carried the tribe of Why-nots. Understand me, my dear Usbek! Never for a moment would I infringe the privilege of youth to soar with head among the clouds. But free thinking, properly understood, demands that even youth keep its feet on the earth...
...your issue of Mar. 23, 1925, Page 18, was an article entitled "For Reference" relating to the shape of the earth. A young man this morning asked me: "Allowing that the suns stands still but that our Earth is revolving around every 24 hours, at night or some time during that 24 hours, why are we not ourselves upside down?" Can you in simple words answer him? H.E. SMITH...
There is no such absolute direction as "down" (or "up") in the universe at large. "Down" is the direction of pull of the Earth's gravity. The rotation of the Earth has no effect on the "up" or "down" direction of any person or object on the Earth's surface...
Miss Alice Brown, writer of realistic New England stories, of Children of Earth (the $10,000 Winthrop Ames prize play), of several other long and short plays of beauty and dramatic value, is a kindly lady, born in New Hampshire, living on Pinckney Street, Boston, whose sense of humor is constantly present. Gray-haired, with great dignity, with a constant smile, this woman who gives place to few others in the field of the American short story arrived at a "literary party" recently with a catnip mouse for the cat of the household, "Napoleon...