Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...convenient neighborhood for business offices and is increasing rapidly in beauty. Simply surround and cap your opera auditorium and dressing-rooms with 22 stories of offices priced in proportion to the cultivated air of the building, and the rents from brokers, lawyers, insurance men, advertising agents, etc. will help audiences pay for expensive scenery, costumes, batons, temperaments, vocal chords...
William Lyon Phelps (professor-critic) wrote in his department, As I Like It, in June Scribner's magazine: ". . . Sometimes in solitude I explode with laughter; sometimes I wake up in the night to laugh at some memory. How can one help laughing in and at a world like this...
...certain amount of technical knowledge, were the qualities required for success in business. The answer was: "Judgment, courage, and that combining and balancing quality which may be called resourcefulness of 'gumption'." When he said triumphantly, "You can't teach those," the response was obvious: "Does West Point training help in making successful army officers?" He said "I see your point." Professional training cannot guarantee the production of Napoleons and Less, but, as in medicine, law, engineering and other professions, so now in business, such education has come to be regarded as fundamental...
...militia, as it was thought that the militia might join the mutineers. The soldiers declared that they wanted their pay and intended to take it from the treasury. They pointed their guns at the Congressional windows but did not fire them. Congress sent an urgent message for help to Washington, who was then at West Point, and without waiting to see what the result would be, the members of Congress unheroically slipped through the back door and made their way through a golden June sunset to Princeton in New Jersey, thus abandoning the seat of government to eighty mutineers...
...Inspiration and self-help in the Bible Belt, as reported by the Atlanta Constitution...