Word: grind
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...course, Mr. Mills might return from the opera some evening, take off his top hat and dress coat, roll up his sleeves, and write a song that would surge above the glamor of "The Sidewalks of New York." But down on the lower East Side the old grind organs still throb and Tammany Hall politicians light cigars, lean back in squeaky chairs, smile at one another, say: "He cannot...
...them are real teachers. One can know multiple roots and have no sense of pedagogy. One can be sure of himself in the oral quizz for a doctorate and lack the vital spark which makes for communication of ideas. Yet some can play through the grind of procuring a doctorate and remain sane, interesting. Not even three years, when they should be broadening their minds, spent in fitting an esotericism in scholarship to their mental decorations can completely dull these men. Furthermore, they like university life. It means the companionship of cultivated minds. It means refuge from the mechanical efficiency...
...motherland. They might reason so broadly about government that fine old political issues would become meaningless and forgotten, and states would perhaps fall into the hands of dreadfully efficient automatons like the ones Mr. Shaw and Mr. Wells put in their books, with no axes to grind, no slogans to shout and no fine frenzies to indulge...
...wiseacres ridiculed: "Out of competition nearly eleven years . . . This race is too hot for antiques!" But veteran Clarence De Mar won, has been winning with ironic consistency ever since. It is a strange anomaly that several aged Marathoners are still in competition; a 58-year-old finished the Philadelphia grind...
...grind of the period. He cared nothing for sports, clubs, clothes, or any of the finer things his alma mater had to offer...