Word: idealizations
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When one looks closely at the idea of personal subordination, at this "adhesive comradeship," he sees that not for any lifetime can personality be sacrificed unselfishly for the common good. It is an ideal, elusive and momentary like the touch of spring wind. For that reason it is a greater prize than individual Immortality. Happiest of all, it can be experienced during life. But the more distant is a goal, the more chance that less will reach it. Will the Soulless Age come to disbelieve in Immortality by an inability to achieve it through Work, and thereby generate moral...
...hats to her milliner, fought constantly and sometimes fiercely with his wife about her extravagance. Overawed and tormented by an older sister, Harriet was educated in a convent in Georgetown, D. C., grew dreamy, introspective and so romantic that her admirers were unable to measure up to her ideal of a lover. She had resigned herself to spinsterhood, had published a few verses, when in 1891 she got the commission to write a poem for the opening of the World's Columbian Exposition. Opponents wanted to replace her with John Greenleaf Whittier, then 85. Despite illness, an operation...
...municipal airport to the B. A. C. as a free gift from a great-hearted city. Safely inland in case of war, less than eight miles from downtown Monument Circle, the airport is completely equipped, free of obstructions, has unlimited acreage for expansion, and would make an ideal permanent test field. To make B. A. C. feel at home, the city is prepared to float a $65,000 bond issue for necessary buildings. Behind such generosity is Indianapolis' desire to develop as an aircraft equipment centre, publicity for the growing city and a "terrific" Chamber of Commerce. Confident that...
...East, a new nation is building an empire; and in Austria, Hitler is beginning to realize his long sought-after union of the German peoples. In Switzerland, the placid waters of Lake Geneva lap in the ears of the few remaining statesmen who cling to the ideal of collective security, and in the rest of the world prophets of despair are again preparing funeral services for the League of Nations. Here in America, even while mid-western senators are raising the familiar cry, "We are isolated," legislative machinery to produce more money for the navy rolls into action...
Peace machinery that leaps into motion on the threat of war and stays in motion until peace is again obtained is the ideal that Ricardo J. Alfaro, former president of Panama, declared is needed to settle Pan-American relations. He gave the speech yesterday evening in Emerson Hall...