Word: humanity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...probation and "passing on", however, personal acquaintance and personal information become of prime importance to the powers in University Hall. The really thorough investigation of each student's circumstances, and the manner in which each case is handled on its own merits, are refreshing proofs that the much-lauded human factor is not absent from the Dean's office...
...tell quaint and "human interest" doings of business bigwigs, to supply condensed financial news "for busy businessmen," is the avowed purpose of Forbes (semi-monthly), edited by Bertie Charles Forbes...
...tiny garden situated upon the sunny expanse of the Square of Quiretti. in Rome, workmen erected a fountain whose light waters were to dance into the air and fall in a shower of silver sparks. The fountain was in the form of human figures, incompletely clothed; around the Square of Quiretti are numerous convents and educational institutions. The inmates of these houses disliked the fountain because of the nudity of its statuary; not long after its erection, Pope Pius XI himself sent deputies into the sunny plaza to gaze upon the fountain and determine the degree of its propriety...
...cummings attached to the program of him (TIME, April 30) is used to introduce this posthumous play by Leonid Andreyev. "This is not a casual play," wrote Author Andreyev; "The Waltz of the Dogs represents the most hidden cruel meaning of tragedy which renounces the meaning and reason of human existence. . . . This is a responsible work and should be produced with deliberate courage...
P.ose Macaulay's perennial concern for human snobbishness, and consequent shams, takes new form in this entertaining tragedy, punctuated as it is with slapstick. No innovation, it is a psychological study of dual, or rather multiple personality. It is done with wit, intelligence, and according to Freud...