Word: expression
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...characteristic of those who like to think for themselves that they will try to express their ideas. If there is no opportunity savd on an examination, they will try it there, usually with disastrous conseqnences to themselves. The more interested they are in the subject, the more likely they are to go off on a tangent, and put too much time on the phase that has especially drawn their attention. The result is a very lopsided blue-book...
Free from duty he will travel in Italy with Lady Isabella Howard, spend his leisure time learning to bind books as a hobby. His greatest contribution to the U. S. was the personal demonstration of attitude which few U. S. statesmen could express and which he best expressed in a speech last year at Princeton : "There is nothing, apart from the ever-important cultivation of the spiritual values, which your country and my country needs so much as the cultivation of esthetic values; not in the foolish and pretentious fashion of the esthetes of the Victorian...
...when speaking of the late great Author Henry James), he admires those who do, writes about them. Unlike his books, he is brimming with youthful enthusiasm. Last September he married Miss Kate Smith of Chicago: they are now abroad. Other books: One Man's Initiation, Three Soldiers, Orient Express, Manhattan Transfer, Rosinante to the Road Again, A Pushcart at the Curb; The Garbage Man, Airways, Inc. (plays...
...over a million of them, will be the leaders of tomorrow, and their opinion must be of real value and force. Through their undergraduate publications and other organizations, they have excellent media through which to voice their sentiments. Hitherto, little concerted use has been made of these facilities to express student opinion on national affairs, but the evils of prohibition come so close to college men both during and after their undergraduates days that it seems more than legitimate for the collegiate press to step out of its usual role of disinterested observer.. To keep under cover, the unpleasant...
Alister MacDonald, elder son of British Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald, junketing in the U. S., met Herbert Hoover Jr., radio chief of Western Air Express, the President's elder son, at dinner in Pasadena, Calif. They talked about aviation...