Word: ideale
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...compete where no end is served and no result achieved; we sweat over unloved tasks and neglect the true business of life; we erect and execute useless schemes, multiplying the worries of life, cluttering our days with rubbish, blasting Leisure and wasting our strength on this false and misbegotten ideal of "College Spirit." Columbia "Varsity...
Madame is married to the conservative hero and has a son in college. Unfortunately her career calls her to all parts of the world, and while she is away, her husband, becoming lonely in her absence, thinks he has found the ideal woman. She, a widow, appears to be the domestic and home-loving creature who will warm his slippers by the fire and make life easy and happy for him. This affair has come to a critical stage when Madame enters...
...whether or not the best solution, Dr. Drury's proposal makes for propaganda, in the best sense of the word, the sense of mutual understanding. There is an ideal to be worked for, Sir James Barrie's ideal "League of Youth," and Dr. Drury's suggestion may prove to be the most practical way of finding...
...English gentlemen of the road feed off the fat of the land: they have arrived at a state of well being almost as ideal as that of the Roman mob in the period of Corn laws and competitions in Praetorian generosity. They are given their regular doles of food, and everything is done to make their lives carefree and easy. Now and then the terrible spectre of road-building, railway construction, or shipment to Australia, where good wholesome work is free and plentiful, makes a shadow in their dreams. But so far the bug-a-boo has done nothing more...
Proposhals for a National Theatre, a permanent home for standard drama in America, are again before the critical public. The scheme for a New York facsimile of the Theatre Francaise has been a pet ideal with high-minded producers and theatre people for a generation. Some years ago it came to a disappointing fruition in New York's Century Theatre, where shortsightedness, or perhaps too much farsightedness, made it a failure before it had begun. Now a definite plan seems again to be shaping, under encouraging auspices: but as yet no word has been spoken that makes Augustus Thomas...