Word: fitful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...since to blow trumpet calls of allegiance to all Republicans and Democrats, were severely criticized for warming up for their race so long before the call to the barrier. Apparently no harm has been done, for although much water has since flowed under the bridges, they but made themselves fit for the great mud battle of March and April in Washington...
...story of modern society life that is not actually coarse with the grewsome details of an illicit love; at last I have found an author who, with all the opportunity in the world, refuses to revel in blasphemy and obscenity. This does not mean that "The Gay Ones" is fit for wide distribution among the Sunday schools of the country--for there is illicit love, and a dear innocent little girl is born of necessarily bad parents, but it is all told in a "nice" way, with a great deal left to the imagination, or at best barely hinted...
...come mainly from interested individuals, or as the result of requests by interested individuals. And the money has gone into the stipulated channels, whether those channels were dry or not. Notable exceptions have been the sums annually donated by disinterested generosity for the University to use as it sees fit, and the recent endowment raised among the alumni. In each of these cases the moving force has been generous and often self-sacrificing, loyalty...
...valuable as the best of these pictures are in exemplifying the art of painting, the great classical schools of art, for instance Greek sculpture. Italian Renaissance painting, and paintings of Flemish, German, Spanish, Dutch, French and English schools fit in better with the type of instruction in a University...
There seems little doubt but that this was realized in the earliest days. Greek politicians had no scruples about manufacturing mythology to fit their needs, as Mr. H. I. Brock pointed out recently in the Times,--and the Romulus and Remus fable, invented, or at least encouraged by latter-day Roman rulers, must have had an effect in developing the Roman superiority complex, which like most such complexes, was based on a feeling of uniqueness or "differentness". The growth of national legends and national folk-lore came before the awakening of national consciousness or patriotism in Europe; the results...