Word: idealist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...London barrister, an idealist, but no businessman, pink-faced Tom Hughes set the younger sons to laying out cricket fields, tennis courts, organizing a Rugby football team, dramatic societies, a cornet band. In the Tennessee mountains old English homes sprang up, a "Tabard Inn," a church, a library which included a practically complete set of Hughes first editions, a rare Dickens item, pamphlets by the younger Pitt, the entire series of Illustrator Kate Greenaway. Tom Hughes's mother moved there, lived out her life in "Uffington House." But Tom Hughes's wife thought the whole thing was silly...
...shooting? Those are questions of extraordinary vitality in a world which seems to contain no ideals worth shooting or dying for. Maxwell Anderson apparently believes there still are a few left. To prove it he has written a play called "Key Largo" which tells the saga of a young idealist who broke with his faith to live,--and returned...
...under the auspices of the Capital's National Press Club. On hand were most of the U. S. Senate, about half of the House, three members of the Cabinet and most of Washington's 509 correspondents. They had heard about this story of a rather sappy young idealist, who in defeating a frame-up to oust him from the Senate, exposes one U. S. Senator as corrupt, others as unimaginative, hard-boiled professional officeholders...
Curios: Gauguin once said that for a room to be properly decorated, there must be an obscene picture opposite the door. In this way, he said, it is possible to scare away all respectable people . . . The young idealist who walked out of the Louvre with Watteau's "L'indifferente" under his coat was recently sentenced to two years imprisonment. He claimed that the painting had been badly retouched and that he had intended to improve its condition . . . The Percy Haughton monument at Soldiers Field was done by Dr. Mackenzie, a truly great sculptor. Ironic as it may seem, the figures...
...Greene, to put the matter unoriginally, is an idealist in this question of war. He accepts the protestations of France and Britain that they are waging a crusade in complete good faith. He is convinced that this is essentially--nay entirely--a conflict between naked power and reason in international affairs, between the suppression of human rights and liberties and the glorification of the same...