Word: humanity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...John Grier Hibben of Princeton University, who called him a "high type." Candidate Smith was praised on the West coast by Novelist Gertrude Atherton, great grandniece of Benjamin Franklin, who, addressing her fellow Californians before the crucial May Day primary, said: "Smith is the only man who has any human appeal. . . . He is a man. He is open-minded and openhanded. He stirs the affections. He is honest and direct. He is no humbug professing all things and practicing nothing. Vote the humbugs down. Women want real men to represent them in public office...
...embarrassed, furious. Secretary Wilbur, in particular, had to answer an irate telegram from Joseph Pool, the 15-year-old's father, asking how such things could happen. Since Navy tradition mentions only a wife in every port and none on shipboard and the regulations say very little about human nature, there was nothing that Secretary Wilbur could say beyond expressing regret...
...coming, and she wanted to see. Round about and beneath her surged merry, excited Milanese. They filled the whole square except for a lane guarded by picked, stalwart troops of the Alpine mountaineering service. In a moment His Majesty, beloved King Vittorio Emanuele III, would ride down the human lane and on to open Milan's great, annual Sample Fair. Why didn't the King come? He was already overdue. The child on the lamp post tossed her head impatiently and made a face at some other children who were lamp posting nearby...
There are those who contend that Playwright O'Neill has more to say when he is concerned with intimate and human drama than when he is setting forth some tremendous generalization upon Life. The first audience at Lazarus Laughed was properly impressed with the repetitive and imposing spectacle which the Pasadena Players (amateur) made of their production. The play was given in the Pasadena Community Playhouse, a theatre endowed by local patrons for the highly able efforts of the Pasadena Players. The mechanics of the production were gigantic; there were vast numbers of actors, 400 costumes and 300 masks...
...synthetic Schmaltzian horror, only to flay it for having no imagination beyond its mechanistic world, and yet he, concocter, flayer, is a victim of the same mechanism. Crammed with a thousand facts, equipped with test tube and tuning fork, Lewis's laboratory does not imagine the chemical of human kindness. The defenseless specimen wallows blandly in 100% Americanism, while the experimenter stands off and sneers, smacking his lips, rubbing his hands, gloating wickedly...