Word: idealized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Colleges." Thus a muddled situation is resolving itself into an inchoate philosophy of higher education. What is needed is a systematic philosopher to make an exposition of the subject as a basis for future discussion, and to remove from the public mind the confusion invoked by declarations that the ideal liberal education should be of no practical value...
...vague and shadowy Dickensian figures who receive their degrees a half a year before or a half year later than their fellows. Celebrated by no flourish of a sheriff's stick or the beating hoofs of the Governor's guard, still this bestowal of diplomas means much to the ideal who are willing to date obscurity to attain it: it is only just to grace their departure with a single token of remembrance. Akin as they are to the useless unfortunates who are designated with a cabalistic ocC., the time of their passing is significant of frustration overtrumped, of delay...
...returning then to Europe after engagements in the U. S. and in the crossing he met George Eastman, rich kodakman of Rochester, N. Y. There were many hours to spare aboard ship. Mr. Eastman's hobby was music and Tenor Rosing had time to talk of his ideal to produce opera for English-speaking audiences in their own language. Mr. Eastman listened well, tucked it all away in the corner of his mind. That summer Tenor Rosing received a cable, and in the fall, after canceling a year's concert engagements, Tenor Rosing returned...
...sacred, and consider it indispensable to ultimate happiness in the intimate association of man and woman. However, marriage is not always successful, and I maintain that it is only right that two discordant personalities be allowed to separate and pursue their own course of life. Every woman has an ideal man of her own conception. Some are fortunate enough to meet him soon in life and to live happily ever after their first trip to the altar. My several marriages are stepping stones in my search for my masculine ideal...
When asked what type of man she considered the masculine ideal, the screen celebrity smiled. "You will think I am trying to appear naive when I say that I consider that men like President Coolidge, who is so calm, capable of reflecting intelligently on difficult problems, and able to arrive at logical conclusions: Lindbergh, who is similar to the Crusaders of old, and Will Rogers, who is such a gentleman and actor, are the admirable types of men. Perhaps, I am only cynical when I attempt to visualize a man combining the good qualities of these three...