Word: elementalism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...father's sister, who had these stories from her father, who had heard them from his mother, who had heard them from some one else. Of such is history made. This legendary atmosphere helps to make the story vivid but it also brings the kitchen-parlor element into unfortunate prominence. It is the first factor in making the book a colloquial story rather than a history...
...accompanied by a deep sense of loss on the part of the University that he has served. No matter for how many years he has been in office, nor how exacting the work which he has carried on his shoulders, the announcement of his impending retirement invariably has an element of surprise and shock. It seems impossible that one who has been so close to the life of the institution can ever...
...demands of education are today. Is it as useful for the student to scrape the surface of knowledge, even though the general grasp appears most important to him, as it is for him to gain a fairly workable ground-work of some specific field? Undoubtedly, the most important element gained from a college education is the method of thinking which enables the student to get immediately to the crux of a problem. The ordinary graduate faces detailed and intricate questions which he must be able to solve. It is not what he learns as much...
While the charges which Dr. Wirt has levelled against the Brain Trust seem at first sight to be an effective bid for publicity, it is becoming apparent that beneath the external hullabaloo there is at least some basis for such an indictment. Felix Frankfurter's "hot dogs," the youthful element which he has introduced into the Roosevelt circle, have been using the word "revolution" with careless abandon. Mr. Richberg in several of his speeches has said we are in the midst of one. People acquainted with debonair Rexford Tugwell, knee deep in ideas for economic planning...
...says the Observer, is little-known Edward J. Flynn, boss of The Bronx. "Mystery man of Roosevelt's Black Chamber" is Frank C. Walker, until lately treasurer of the Democratic National Committee. "Together with Farley and Flynn, he is a tacit reminder that Roosevelt's strongest single element of strength is the Catholic Church. . . ." Observer casts his vote for "slickest politician in the Cabinet and probably in the entire country, Roosevelt alone excepted," to Daniel C. Roper, Secretary of Commerce...