Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Brown Corporation and has announced Brown's purpose of embracing a similar sport policy. Games for all and the extension of curriculum ideals to athletics are the keynotes of the report. All Brown men, alumni and undergraduates alike, want a more substantial foundation for outdoor sports, the sports which help to educate, and only those. They believe that all education whether in the classroom or on the athletic field should be dominated by "one great ideal, subjected to the same control, held to the same financial publicity and guided by the same theory of the sound mind in the sound...
...senator's astuteness in fighting comedy with ridicule. His method might be profitably used in preserving the rationality of law in Nebraska and Minnesota and elsewhere. But it is unfortunate that satire is needed to preserve sanity in legislation. At times when crime is unusually persistent, it will not help matters to make even exceptional laws ridiculous. The fault however, does not lie with Mr. Finley of Kansas but with those who have given the cause for so justified an attack. We hope his lesson will be taken to heart by law-makers who fail to realize that theirs...
...John Weeks, who says his wife will be a great help to him in running the affairs of Vermont, offered prayer before proceeding with his inaugural address last week...
...greeted this confection; Playwright Edwin Self is advertising manager for the Dayton Rubber Manufacturing Co., Dayton, Ohio. All praise to Dayton had he written a play, but has he? Junkman Ernest John (corpulent Sydney Greenstreet) has informal chats with God; radiates sunshine; feels led to rob a bank to help an aged invalid lady; with approval of the author does so. Old Sal (Emma Dunn) after rampaging all she can to offset the drivel, climaxes with a nerve-wrecking unexpected shriek?as Ernest John, in a large chair, slowly dies...
...sense can never cease. There is no absolute line of demarcation, no point beyond which will only serve to create what President Lowell calls "sad misfits of ill-directed ambition." But there is a system, or rather an order of things, which has been gradually evolving and which may help to make the situation less difficult and this panacea receives discussion in this same report...