Word: fondly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...well-known play, but some people forget easily, and some may have been touring Europe when this "Cohan show" came to Boston. The story centers about John Paul Bart, who is in the employ of Anton Huber, a tailor. Like all human beings and Horatio Alger heroes, he cherishes fond hopes of becoming a great man, and to further himself intellectually commits to memory many phrases of an unpublished work by Dr. Gustavus Sonntag, the finance of Mr. Huber's daughter, Tanya. Finally opportunity knocks at his door. As a result he appears at the fashionable Stanlaw reception after confiscating...
...They show admirably the tremendous difference in Which exists between the War and that just younger, and by generation I mean a "college generation." Both of these young men are sensitive- artistic, well-bred. They spring from more or less the same environment , and they are both, perhaps, Naturally, fond of over-sophistication. Yet, in a sense, these books are a hundred years apart. The Education of Peter is a simple, straightforward story of undergraduate life at Yale, with its "disappointments and hopes, its minute joys and sorrows. It is not Concerned With the difficult issues of Ilife, not with...
John Wiley went through Yale much 'as does his hero Peter. His book isn't quite fair to Yale in regard to its attitude toward the literary man-but that's another matter. Had young John Wiley, New York reared, fond of dancing, Who has tried his hand at reporting.- and will probably be a successful Writer-had young John Wiley (who saw military training only in its earliest stages-his Freshman year) been to the War in any capacity whatsoever, he could never have written The Education of Peter, Yet, his is a fresher generation...
Young John Wiley, "New York reared, fond of dancing...
...every where that Mary went, the Lamb was sure to go." This more of less fond relation is equally true of the Republican and Democratic Parties, but the tie is not so much of love as competition. Some few days ago the Republican sympathizers in Harvard arose, in their strength, and almost by spontaneous generation, the Democratic constituency yesterday loomed up in rivalry. There is a remote possibility of future skirmishing worthy of the two descendants of once virile forbears...