Word: functional
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...clubs like it. Mr. Doran, long a friend to young novelists, found a kindly young disciple in Editor Farrar, redheaded, chipper, who could gently pat the backs of hopeful literati. To many, Critic Farrar is a promising second edition of Critic William Lyon Phelps. Mr. Farrar will continue to function as editorial director of the Doran book business, will also contribute to the Rascoefied Bookman "a department somewhat like Dr. Phelps's in Scribner's-only different...
Last week long meetings were held, black cigars chewed. Finally announcement was made that Hornsby's stock had been purchased by Mr. Breadon for $112,000, substantially the asking price; that all interested parties were happy once more; that the shrewd Mr. Hornsby would function at second base for the Giants on the opening...
...thoroughly in sympathy with the sincerity of the committee which has proposed this church, now definitely announced for erection in the Yard. Concerning the practical issue it has objections. Those objections--that a new church is unnecessary, for the dual reason that Appleton Chapel in performing its spiritual function has come to be an essential part of the Yard environment, and also that it is capable of housing those who wish to attend services--have been raised before, are shared by others, and will remain as factors which have met defeat. These arguments have been over-ruled and a church...
...conflicting views; the very principles of liberalism are at stake. Education is presumably an effort to cultivate the rational powers of youth and yet in these instances such faculties have been forced to choose between the option of conforming to the prevailing mode of thought, or of ceasing to function...
...evening as is the Vagabond's wont, he will go to the theatre--the usual Saturday function goes without saying. Just where he will go is a question, one which he can never decide until about 7.45 o'clock in the evening when the inexorable flying moment says "choose this--or this." Of the various choices "The Vagabond King" if he hadn't seen it already would present strong attractions--there is a slight discrepancy here for the perspicacious to pick out--and the same applies to "The Cocoanuts...