Word: idealizes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Swimmer: . . . Now I'm here seeing all these nice paintings of your father and your mother and your ancestors, I quite forget all about the Olympics. Why, Your Royal Highness, you ought to go into the movies. You have an ideal face for pictures...
...BLOOD PRESSURE. Coin Machines. Original, patented. The biggest hit of the year. Hundreds now on display. Ideal for resorts, amusement centers, etc. Operated with or without an attendant. Income as much as $150 per week. Now at $39.50. Send for illustrated circular...
...languages, natural science, social science. . . . No student should be admitted to professional educational classes who is at entrance to college below the present average of liberal arts college freshmen. Since this would exclude at least 60% of pupils now in teacher training institutions over the country, it represents an ideal rather than opinion. . . . Many of these students are literate only in the legal sense of the word...
Dictators Together. Next night Chancellor Schuschnigg went to the microphone in Vienna and dished the Deal in verbose German-the ideal language in which to express several conflicting ideas at once with nebulous luminosity. His bare fact was that Austria and Germany had made a pact. The Schuschnigg broadcast simply did not get down to brass tacks, and neither did subsequent official announcements. A so-called "summary," but not the text of what had been signed, was issued, and officials admitted that this summary did not cover "secret" clauses which exist in the pact. Trying to guess, the world press...
...Yellow. The dominant note of that book, as of Antic Hay and Those Barren Leaves which followed it, was one of unamiable cynicism over the prevailing moods and purposeless behavior of post-War English intellectuals. In Huxley's characters purpose was always identified with hypocrisy, devotion to any ideal with ineffectuality or self-deception. Between long highbrow talks, usually on science or art, his characters suffered from boredom, made love or deliberately created trouble to avoid it, were about as uniformly unpleasant a set of moral idiots as any author has created. Not until Point Counter Point, published...