Word: herbert
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History. When Herbert Croly launched his new liberal "journal of opinion" 25 years ago, definition was easier. At that seething high tide of trustbusting, muckraking, Bull Moose progressivism, the settlement house movement, the suffragette movement, the I.W.W., liberals were also many things, but they were above all hopeful. In an aged brownstone house in Manhattan's Chelsea district, with a theological seminary appropriately across the street, and a House for the Detention of Women next door, Editor Croly ran his magazine to establish a liberal credo, a way of looking at U. S. political and social life, rather than...
...immigrant Irish newspaperman, Herbert Croly was the first child adopted into New York City's Ethical Culture Society. Proud, shy, intellectual, Croly suffered agonies of embarrassment interviewing any stranger, virtual torment when impassioned liberals appeared. Despite a soft, almost whispered voice, he dominated liberal gatherings, New Republic luncheons, was deferred to not only by force of intellect but of character. No Robespierre, he had good friends among the Bourbons (one of them was a New York Stock Exchange ex-president). His ideas included a thorny explanation of U. S. history which, expounded in his best book, The Promise...
There have always been big boys in the Big Ten: Chicago's Walter Eckersall, Illinois' Red Grange, Minnesota's Bronko Nagurski and Herbert Joesting, Michigan's Willie Heston, Harry Kipke, Benny Friedman. But Tom Harmon can run like Grange, buck like Joesting-and pass and kick besides. Although he may not be a point-a-minute man he could almost qualify as a half-a-point-a-minute man. In the first three games of the season (in which he played a total of 124 minutes), he scored 52 points: seven touchdowns, seven points-after-touchdown...
...Punch, Wit A. P. Herbert, literary M. P. for Oxford, wrote an article Mein Pamph, describing the Royal Air Force showering Berlin with "Bomphlets...
...might be described as a shake-up of British rectory humor, Evelyn Waugh, Laurel & Hardy, John Erskine, and the Marquis de Sade, quite well enough blended to please the palate of Sword-in-the-Stone partisans, to assure its author definite standing among such cult men as A. P. Herbert, P. G. Wodehouse, Lewis Carroll...