Word: idealized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Europe: "We are now definitely in the age of the chauffeur and the Negro dance. ... The American ideal of service ... coincides, psychologically, with the norm of every negroid tribe. ... To Europe, and to Europe alone, has the task been entrusted to guard the sacred fire of the spirit from extinction during the long night of the spirit whicli now lies before mankind...
...BEAU IDEAL-Percival Christopher Wren-Stokes...
With Beau Geste, Christopher Wren roused such wholesale devotion to the gallant Brothers Geste of the French Foreign Legion that he has found it necessary to pronounce two post mortems-Beau Sabreur, and now Beau Ideal. No Conan Doyle, facile at reviving favorite characters, he is nevertheless faithful in concocting new thrills, new astounding coincidences, new bad puns, and pinning them to the surviving Geste-two others having already died elaborate deaths...
...chief continues consistent with his State record, will be found on the Federal-operation side, with the Johnsons and (unless signs have misled) the Hoovers. Opposed will be old-linesters, like Maryland's Bruce, who think that the Government should be kept from stepping into fields, or streams, ideal for privateering...
...flame of deep religious passion enkindle your souls, as this alone can maintain a high tradition for the Olympic Games and realize their sublime ideal."-Baron Pierre De Coubertin, at the opening of the IXth Olympiad in Amsterdam, Holland, last week. It was he who was chiefly responsible for the revival of modern Olympiades in 1896. "Once again it's America against the world."-Typical statement in U. S. newspapers. And so the IXth Olympiad opened in Amsterdam's red brick stadium in the presence of Prince Consort Henry and Master of Ceremonies Baron A. Schimmelpenninck...