Word: formely
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...carefully separated trilogy of American government, built in three concentric spheres, there has generally been little friction between the two inner bodies, local and state control, while the latter and the federal administration have rubbed each other the wrong way violently enough to form a strong issue in campaigns a century apart. Indifference, and a personal touch, have helped to satisfy the two smaller divisions in their relations; but here in Massachusetts, the section in which originated the ideal of local self-government, and its expression in the town-meeting, the small towns, through their associated selectmen, have spoken vigorously...
Arguing particularly against the theory that the law is sacred as such. Dr. Butler declared: "Laws are not made by Legislatures or by courts except in form, save insofar as the general will accepts them. No law which has to do with human thought or speech or conduct can by any possibility be enforced. . . . If it be urged that all statutes . . . that have the form of law have also by reason of that very fact the full force and authority of law, then one can only sigh and repeat softly the immortal words of Mr. Bumble...
...views on marriage have made newspaper copy from time to time, since the publication in 1913 of his book, Marriage and Divorce. Marriage, he contended, must be regarded as a human institution, a social form to be used so long as it is useful, and to be abolished when abolition is wise. Essentially marriage is a sex matter, but the test of a true marriage is "spiritualization of the physical instinct of sex attraction." He approved of divorce whenever affection has dwindled...
...saying, astoundingly: "I am sure they [ancient peoples] had the automobile, the radio, the airplane-everything that we have, or its equivalent, and perhaps many things that we have yet to discover." Mr. Ford did not deny the general supposition that Ford Motor Co. (U. S.) stock in some form would soon be offered to investors, just as Ford Motor Co. Ltd. (British) has been...
...have just made my point"-time-honored prescription for effective exposition. No such precepts trammel Thornton Wilder, apparently indifferent to getting his point across. Says he in a luminous foreword to 16 playlets, "I have composed some forty of these plays, for I had discovered a literary form that satisfied my passion for compression. Since the time when I began to read I had become aware of the needless repetition, the complacency in most writing." The form he discovered requires but three minutes and three characters to refute a theory of faith without reason