Word: europeanizer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...William Setchel Learned of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, in a paper on "The Quality of the Educational Process in the United States and in Europe" in the Foundation's current bulletin. Dr. Learned contrasts the disciplined convergence upon a single field, in European scholarship, with the dissipation of energy and attention permitted in U. S. classrooms, where Humorist Stephen Leacock pretended to find a student "taking Turkish, music and architecture not because he meant to be choirmaster in a Turkish cathedral but because they came...
Thomas Edison's European agent was the man who brought the young Tesla to the U. S. After his first job for Mr. Edison?an all-night job putting a steamer's lighting plant in commission?Mr. Edison ejaculated to an associate: "This is a damn good...
Hugh Gibson was known as a routine "career man," 19 years in the State Department's service, member of at least half a dozen smart clubs in various European capitals, and generally the sort of man who works hard around an embassy, golfs and dines, sees his tailor often?and is forgotten when a "Big Man" must be found to go out and negotiate for his country...
Writing in a medley of moods, Author Raucat places the reader behind each of his characters in turn. The result is a set of complete reactions?everyone's viewpoint is defined. Mildly mocking, Author Raucat describes the festivities surrounding the arrival of the European at the pleasure resort. Says the stationmaster: "As a favor to my guest I offered to weigh him on the baggage scales. What a figure he made the arrow jump to! It exceeded the maximum weight authorized for a piece of passenger train baggage; we burst into cries of admiration. Next I weighed myself; and then...
...Hungarian, has an international reputation as author, lecturer, pacifist, has frequently accused the U. S. of "militarism." Her eloquence helped in persuading Henry Ford that he could take an ocean trip and stop the World War-a proceeding which was generally felt to have added much to the existent European impression of the U. S. as a country richly peopled with moneyed madmen...