Word: growing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meanest of tricks is to tell a wealthy woman that the best way to clean her Oriental pearls is to swish them through boiling water. As the pearls heat they will lose their moonbeam lustre, may crack and the wealthy lady will grow frantic. Yet last week all Japan honored a short, stocky, crinkly-faced old man who had rolled up his kimono sleeves, seized a blunt spade and vigorously shoveled into a fiery furnace 720,000 of his best pearls. Within three minutes they turned to flaky ashes (crystallized lime...
...matter of fact, however, this is no sudden development, but the result of a steadily growing policy of inviting criticism from men who can take an objective view of the administration of the many departments of the University. It is bromidic to explain that Harvard needs such comment, which transcends class and sectional boundaries. The more intelligent criticism and suggestion the University can receive from interested, enlightened observers, the more it can grow in service...
...reveals the old familiar Gilbertian shreds and patches. Again you see the playwright, with the help of a Latin Little Buttercup, mix those children up, and not a creature knew it. Again, in republican Barataria, he puts down the mighty from their seat; and "ambassadors and such as they grow like asparagus in May, and dukes are three-a-penny." But the music, the whole atmosphere of the piece, is a different matter. It is flowing, Verdian, Rossinian, lightly serious, made of Latin lyricism, not of English lung-power...
Even country schoolteachers have outgrown the platitude: "Be good, and maybe you'll grow up to be president." But last week in Iowa, the platitude was given such new life and validity that its vogue may well return at once...
...told them they should not make trouble in school, but grow up to be good...