Word: forwardness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Youngish Pennsylvanians whose Progressive fathers frightened them with the name of BOIES PENROSE a quarter century ago could look forward last week to bemusing their own children with that great name some day. In Philadelphia Boies Penrose II, nephew of Pennsylvania's longtime (1897-1921) Senator and Republican boss, received a Republican nomination to Congress in last week's primary...
...shoulders. Furthermore they are symbolic. The gestures have definite meanings, many of which can be traced back to antiquity. . . . For this reason Italians are able to converse in pantomime without uttering a single word. Their posture is characterized by an easy relaxation of the shoulders and a strong forward curvature of the back. At the same time the elbows are held backward...
...first hesitant step of a process that air-minded men dream of--the establishment of a regular transatlantic airline. The great dirigible should not be greeted as just one more example of the insolence of an overweening nation, but as the medium through which progress takes another step forward...
...complicated reasons the tide of modern delectation is flowing away from subjects like German, and with the revision of its more fundamental courses, the department is showing its sensitivity to public demand. The other foot must be planted forward with equal firmness, and the staff, too often cold and uninspiring, be made more responsive to the tone of the present...
...describes the character of his artificial unicorn thus: "True in spirit as in horn to his prototype, he is conscious of peculiar power. ... He recognizes the power of a single horn which he uses as a prow to pass under fences and barriers in his path, or as a forward thrusting bayonet in his attacks. And, to invert the beatitude, his ability to inherit the earth gives him the virtues of meekness. Consciousness of power makes him docile...