Word: idealism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Winter, for four years president of the General Federation of Women's Clubs, seemed to have many ideal qualifications for the leadership of her particular group, but outside of that group women were not inclined to follow her. Alice Paul satisfies entirely the demands of her particular group of ultra-progressives, but her following is comparatively small...
...mistress of the Francis W. Parker School (Chicago) : ". . . How can he [a boy] have sympathetic understanding of his wife and daughters if he has known only men in the course of his schooling? . . . I don't for one minute mean that we should have all women teachers . . . the ideal arrangement is to have both...
...Today we honor youth, beautiful youth, consecrated youth, ideal youth, youth that won our admiration and deepest love," said Dr. William Mann Irvine, headmaster of Mercersburg Academy, at Mercersburg, Pa. "Like Sir Galahad, his moral strength was ideal because it was clean. . . . The mantle of nobility was upon him." The headmaster's wife drew back a U. S. flag revealing a portrait of Calvin Coolidge Jr. Mrs. Coolidge sat in the audience. Later, the class of 1925, classmates of her dead son, presented her with a watch...
...been the children of freedom. Native to a rigorous climate and a none too productive soil, they have learned the necessity for hard work and careful management. They were moved by that aspiration for a free holding in the land which has always marked peoples in whom the democratic ideal was pressing for recognition. Eager for both political and economic independence, they realized the necessity for popular education, and so have always been among the most devoted supporters of public schools. Thousands of them volunteered in the service of the country during the Civil and Spanish Wars, and tens...
...stage playing a scene in classic comedy with Laurette Taylor; to meet Mrs. Thomas Whiffin, Amelia Bingham and Violet Heming in the same cast; to hear ovations and the curtain speeches-all these things are to find concentrated the talent and devotion of distinguished lifetimes, giving homage to an ideal and receiving it in kind. It mattered not last week that Manhattan suffered from the most persistent heat wave of recent times. People gave up their roof gardens and their evening in the country to watch this brilliant assembly. John Drew, who shares with Mrs. Fiske the greatest honors...