Word: idealizes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Belittled Communist Gallacher: "There is a complete lack of confidence in the present monarch. . . . You have not only had the abdication of a monarch who had been presented as the last word in an Ideal Man, but you have now got a Monarch that no one is sure of at all. . . . His Majesty's Government are only concerned with profits, and so long as the King assisted them in keeping profits going they kept the King. . . . The members of this House are playing with themselves in thinking they can continue to fool the people of this country. . . . There...
...questionnaire implies striking changes but those who are close to the matter know that the advisability of striking changes is being considered in all quarters. The present situation, as demonstrated of this fall, was far from ideal. Prospects for an improvement in the next few years look increasingly dark. By dealing with intra-mural athletics the Committee seems, perhaps, to side-step the more pressing problem of big time Varsity football, but a second's thought will show how inextricably tied up the question of House, or intra-mural, athletics is with the rest of the program. Gate receipts, gate...
...commercial station, which does not observe such strict limits of time as commercial stations, offers an ideal medium for our purpose. If the program proves successful, the University will have found another way to render public service in its proper field of education...
...amalgamation of clubs rather than the strictly individualistic Cambridge colleges, which it might superficially seem to imitate. Indeed it was several times emphasized by Harvard dons in speeches during the celebrations that adaptation to modern ideas rather than imitation of the mediaevalism of Oxford and Cambridge had been the ideal in the creation of the Harvard house system only five years ago. Some of the houses it is true have weekly formal dinners with Master and Fellows at the high table, reminiscent of Cambridge Hall, but on other occasions undergraduates are allowed to entertain women guests to meals...
...nature of things, he turns for consolation to his mistress, the Baroness Vetsera, only to find that she too is tainted with the intrigue of the court which he despises, that she has been hired by the Emperor to spy on him. There is in this conflict between the ideal and the practical an inherent tragedy which nothing can destroy, and there is the brief moments in which this tragic sense makes itself felt through the wrapping of Mr. Anderson's verse which give value to "The Masque of Kings". But for the most part it lies smothered beneath...