Word: idealism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...conference, Japanese and Chinese, Germans and Frenchmen, mingled fraternally in a common allegiance to a common ideal of international goodwill...
Conditions were ideal when the two shells lined up at the railroad bridge at 7.15 o'clock after being brought down stream lvy the launches. A slight following tide was behind the crews while the lack of wind obviated any trouble in this direction. Starting out on practically even terms the rival eights reached the mid-way mark with little to choose between them. At this point the Freshman and Combination crews took up the challenge and all four went on up the course together...
...White House would be an ideal place to live, if it were not for the fact that attached to it on the east are the Presidential offices where an unconscionable amount of work must be done. Any President may well be tempted to escape from the White House on account of its unpleasant eastern appendage. President Harding expects to escape it on June 20, when he plans to start foi Alaska...
...favorite actors and actresses, Mary Pickford, Norma Talmadge, Constance Talmadge and Gloria Swanson gain the affections of both groups in that order. Then there is a difference of opinion. Douglas Fairbanks is, of course, the beau ideal of boyhood and Rodolph Mineralava Valentino, equally of course, the prince of girlish dreams...
...this finite world, great men are merely concrete examples of the "ideal possibilities" of nature. But Mr. Santayana speaks of "other essences" always present "in the womb of the infinite", and so suggests the question of "who is there today that is really great?" In literature there are many prominent figures, among whom Kipling, with his genius for short stories and for verse and an occasional gift of true poetry, is the chief. In statesmanship--who is there? The cynic is apt to quote the great Disraeli, saying that "the world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into...