Word: idealizes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hotel room to get the Countess and her two breathless suitors "properly introduced." After a study of their handwritings and an earnest consultation with the stars, she said, she had picked Messrs. Miller & Kabelac out of all the male members of the Widows' & Widowers' Club as ideal suitors for the hand of the Countess...
...this lack of energy is indifference. Despite its superficiality, the ordinary Cambridge society which forms itself round any interest from the ballet to archery, not forgetting politics and chemistry, performs one of the most valuable functions of university life. I believe the Houses are developing from the dormitory ideal to that of spontaneous organisms in which discussion and association will take place freely and naturally on the initiative of the undergraduates themselves. The more that happens the better; but at present advances towards such a method are met by protests that hour exams or other trials of strength are impending...
...great anthology is an unusual achievement. It should be a sample box wherein the reader may find sufficient material to form his taste with a view to reading fully those authors whose works attract him. "The Copeland Reader" and now "The Copeland Translations" fulfill this ideal because they represent the choice of an epicure in literature. The popularity of the earlier volume, among young and old, was heartening to anyone interested in the dissemination of great writing. This supplement in translation should find equal favour...
...Next War" is a regular talking picture produced by the Ideal Pictures Corporation of New York, and was written by Burnet Hershey, a correspondent with the A. E. F. during the World War, who managed to be present at several important engagements on the Allied Front...
...Italy today Benito Mussolini is "The Prince" (i. e. the State) as imagined by Niccoló Machiavelli. Different was Prince Don Gelasio Caetani who died last week. He closely fitted the ideal of Erasmus: "The Prince exists for the sake of the State...