Word: foreword
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Four hundred and seventy pages of text, 33 of table of contents, and five of foreword to American readers, comprise what G. B. S. is pleased to call his last will and testament to posterity. Such a document is often a summary of previous implications: and here are the echoes of many a famous "preface" concerning religion, eugenics, education, professional morality, economics-in short, society. But the echoes are measured and stressed in a grand symphony of discord for which the resolving chord is equality of income. The bizarre title of the composition is calculated to attract male attention...
...compilation of the work is sponsored by the College and is being done by the CRIMSON with A. R. Sweezy '29, president of the University daily, and R. A. Stout '29, managing editor, in charge of its publication. President Lowell will write a foreword for the collection and LeBaron Russell Briggs '75, former dean of Harvard College Professor Samuel Eliot Morison '08, Dean A. C. Hanford, Ph.D. '23, W. J. Bingham '16, director of athletics, W. I. Nichols '26, assistant dean of Harvard College, and Stout will be numbered among the other contributors...
...anybody touch your book except yourself. If you find any one impertinent enough to venture, burn his foreword and drop him into the dustbin...
...MacMillian Co., New York, 1928. $1.) and finds him pleasing to the eye and mind. The moral quality of loyalty, the mental quality of mastery, he finds, have made Smith what he is, and will, perhaps, make him what his many supporters hope he will be. There is a foreword by George Foster Peabody...
...request of the anti-Defamation League of the Order of B'nai Brith, Mr. Cecil DeMille will revise the picture "King of Kings", and in his foreword obligingly "exculpate the Jews of guilt for the death of Jesus," and put the responsibility on Roman hirelings. As a historian Mr. DcMille is both magnanimous and tactful. It is an act that should make the wallets of exhibitors swell with good feeling. And Premier Mussolini is hardly likely to protest in favor of the newly accused culprits. The B'nai Brith magazine praises the "fine sensitiveness of the leaders" in passing such...