Word: idealizes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Like Oakland, Calif, on the other edge of the continent, a large part of its working populace commutes every day to the metropolis across the water. As Oaklanders read San Francisco morning papers on the ferries, so do Brooklynites read Manhattan papers in subways and elevateds. Both towns are ideal for evening "home" papers...
...softly along the great corridors, and the grace and agility with which he slides down the huge, smooth stone bannisters are a pleasure to watch. One can almost smell the fragrance of his pipe as he leans over the rail to look downstairs. For Guerchard, naturally, the location is ideal, as nothing gives him greater pleasure than opening the entrance door with his own key, sitting in a dark niche all night guarding the family treasures, or thumbs in waistcoat, announcing in the great hall with his deep voice. "I will protect you. I am the police. I am France...
...committee. Men were hired to go into smoking cars and spread insinuating reports of President Wilson's relations with Mrs. Peck, an old friend with whom he corresponded regularly. This was met by having a friend write an open letter to a New York newspaper, praising the ideal relations between the two. Whispering strategists dictated the rumor that President Harding had Negro blood. Should such methods be used to create the belief that Franklin D. Roosevelt '03, is physically unable to do the work of a president, proper tactics would be to send him on a long tour...
...ally itself with criminals, and never before has that alliance been so shameless. That the American people, moreover, should be willing and even eager to harbor and canonize one kidnapper because he will help them catch another, shows the government is no more than an expression of the popular ideal. When criminals take crime into their own hands there is nothing remarkable, but when outlaws get control of law, and both government and people subscribe, there can be no such thing as justice...
...meeting of the Harvard Teachers' Association is a noble attempt to educate the educators. Their discussions will reopen an old question. Granting that teaching methods are not at present ideal, how much can they be improved by papers and discussions on theoretical subjects...