Word: edgar
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week Low-Tariff Mr. Costigan added that High-Tariff Mr. Marvin was "tireless and fanatical"; that his continued membership on the Commission impaired its usefulness and reputation. He criticized two other members of the Commission-Edgar B. Brossard of Utah and Sherman J. Lowell of New York-for belonging to the "Marvin group." He attacked President Coolidge for disposing of former Commissioners, notably David J. Lewis of Maryland, when their views and actions displeased. He also charged disregard of law and improper exercise of power against President Coolidge's record on tariff changes under the flexible provision which...
Goodspeed's Bible. This, a translation of the New Testament from the Greek, was written by Dr. Edgar Johnson Goodspeed, professor of Patristic Greek, secretary to the president, and chairman of the New Testament Department, at the University of Chicago. When it was published, in 1923, and was printed serially in the Chicago Evening Post & other newssheets, there was a great hue and cry. Critics squeaked about the beauty of the King James Version and the inferiority of the Goodspeed Version. In point of fact, Goodspeed's translation into modern American was in some respects not as well...
...intelligent humility of this utterance is in keeping with the character of Dr. Edgar Johnson Goodspeed. Gracious, energetic, perhaps a trifle over-imbued with the onward-and-upward-and-quickly attitude of his University, Dr. Goodspeed is a type infinitely removed from the majestically conservative Roman Catholic, Francis Aidan Cardinal Gasquet. They have, however, a common quality. To both belongs the same shining desire; both share the same endless and splendid crusade to discover, scuffled somewhere in a dusty place, God's word in a golden grail...
...distance between Europe and America is just as great and effectual as it was when Edgar Lee Masters wrote of the Spoon River artist at Rome, with his work that looked now like Apollo, now like Lincoln. What has long gone without attention across the water still creates a tumult here. Chiselled marble brings a self-conscious blush to the cheeks of the New World, when it turns from its machines to play the esthete. And, after all why need it be ashamed of its lack of artistic sophistication: No European culture was budding let alone flowering, in as short...
...Edgar Allen Poe," Professor Murdock, Harvard...