Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...London theatre queues in addressing the Old Playgoers' Club, a cozy, clannish company. Said he: "We who have seen a long line of very sad, pale, cold people queuing up for the first performance of a new play which is not going to open for 20 hours cannot help admiring the courage and tenacity of our countrymen. . . ." His Royal Highness displayed no courage but much eccentricity by arriving at the Old Playgoers' banquet wearing a white dress cravat of such unique and blatant size that the ends of the bow measured three inches broad, completely masking his collar...
...Rufus T. Bush, mother of Irving T. Bush, owner of the famed Bush Terminal, Brooklyn, last week sent his yacht a present. The boat, building in Germany, will have no filthy foreign wine over her bows at christening. A California vintage, 40 years old, was despatched to Dresden to help entitle her Coronet...
...whether a college education was any help to a man choosing a theatrical career. Mr. Hodge did not seem so sure. "Of course," he admitted, "a man must master the English language, and college offers him that and other opportunities. But the greatest possibilities are in men themselves. I myself was born poor, have been one of the people and know and love them and that I think is the reason for my success...
...Self Help. Through more than two millenniums of alternate droughts and floods the Chinese have not supinely disdained to help themselves. Time was when the Yellow River shifted its course among the Chinese coastal lowlands after every flood, meandering scores of miles from its previous channels. So late as 1852 its waters principally flowed into the Yellow Sea at a point some 300 miles below its present main issuance into the Gulf of Chihli. But throughout the last millennium extensive systems of dikes have been gradually thrown up to restrain such rivers as the yellow Hwang Ho, and huge drainage...
...determine between reality, and fallacy, between truth and error, and between sincerity and hypocricy, as he will be at any later time in life." The editorial goes on to say that, "The college must give its undergraduate the guidance of sincere and thorough scholars and help him to become acquainted with the processes by which the world has accumulated its intellectual wealth, but it is a further prescription of one who has confidence in the student's ability to think for himself that he should have experience in hearing, the arguments of extremists and weighing them; for if there...