Word: idealizes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...book is well written and scholarly. The author sentimentalizes a bit too much over Dorothy, and perhaps makes her out a little too ideal, thereby taking away some of the force and strength in her character. But aside from these defects, as a biography and as a picture of life, it is excellent; and it proves an aid in the understanding of the poetry and character of William, her brother, and Coleridge, her friend...
...types of research. But nothing could be more dishonest intellectually or more fatal to the whole spirit of university work than to confuse pedantic and largely fruitless study with scholarship at its best. That would be as unreasonable as the tendency to disparage the art of politics in its ideal Platonic sense because of the unprincipled machinations of Tammany Hall. The real meaning of scholarship is simply careful and thorough rather than slipshod and emotional thinking. The term is too often applied to work of a kind which is an extreme parody of true scholarship...
...Most of this debt rests upon private contract. The Government cannot reach the problem by legislation. The initiative must come from the great insurance and mortgage companies. It may not seem ideal but such things are done with corporate indebtedness. This situation is so serious and the future of the country so involved that it should and can be accomplished. ... I assert . . . that these debts cannot be paid as they stand...
Just Babies approached its subject from many an angle. The domestic economy angle appeared in "A Layette for $11.10? Here's How" and "The Budget Nursery." A child specialist outlined 24 ideal hours in a baby's life and Assistant Editrix Dal! replied across the page with a report of how difficult she found carrying out the specialist's routine. There were five articles by laymen and physicians on obstetrics and pediatrics. A typical Macfaddle was to be found in a True Story entitled "I Became A Mother at 42?The simple story of a, woman who experienced the great...
...been repeatedly suggested in these columns that some convenient form of telephone service be installed in the Houses. For those who object to paying for a private installation the system used in Randolph Hall is ideal. There every study is fitted with a telephone, which operates from a private exchange for the building. The only charge to the occupants of the suites is a five cent toll on each outside call which they make. Calls originating outside, or wholly within the building, are free. Since all the rooms in the Houses are already wired for telephones, there should...