Word: idea
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...absolutely not!" declared Miss Lillie, not without considerable vehemence. "They can see a joke just as well and just as quickly as an American. One country's ideas of another country are often quite amasing. You very seldom see the American's idea of a typical Englishman with his monocle, or, for that matter, the Englishman's idea of a typical American with his chewing gum. Both have their short comings, but one doesn't mind them if one possesses a sense of humor, does...
...problems must be worked out, and we shall doubtless find it necessary to modify our plans in the light of experience. Especially in the management of doctorate study we shall have to work slowly toward the ideal of a more effective selection of candidates with genuinely constructive ability. The idea of professional training for education, on a graduate level and leading to distinctive degrees, is so new that we may have to wait some time before it will be welcomed by the profession as a whole. Meanwhile, if the number of our students is small, we shall at least have...
Frenchmen wondered last week, if the National Convention of the American Legion, scheduled at Paris, September 19 to 24, 1927, would turn out to be like this. Legion officers scouted the idea, pointed out that wives, children, fathers, mothers and other relatives of Legionnaires will accompany them with ballasting effect. The 30,000 beds have been contracted for at prices ranging from $1.50 to $7.00 per night, and the steamer passage over will be made in orderly fashion on chartered ships assigned to various states. For example, Legionnaires from Iowa will sail on the Megantic. Meals in Paris, however, will...
...Pirn Passes By. Because the Guild had the happy idea of reviving its onetime success by A. A. Milne, it is enjoying the sight of the Garrick Theatre† filled to capacity for the first time this year. Into the home of an all-English country gentleman, George Marden (Dudley Digges), hobbles quaint Mr. Pirn (Erskine Sanford), his memory given to wandering off on appealing but unreliable excursions of second childhood. In an inadvertent moment he mentions the vagaries of one Jacob Tellsworthy, who, unknown to Mr. Pirn, is Mrs. Marden's first husband, believed in all good faith...
President Hibben then stated his idea of the real value of a man to a community, saying that it "did not depend upon his being a so-called law-abiding citizen; his conduct must also conform to the standard of some self-imposed law. . . . Fear of penalties at best can only be a restraining influence. Respect for law based upon fear alone has little or no value in the life of a community . . . . It becomes more and more evident that no government can make man moral...