Word: kiplingisms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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The chief feature of the cruise is the opportunity for combining work and pleasure. As far as possible the time spent ashore will include field trips in geology, geography comparative government and sociology. Language courses both on the boat and ashore will be conversational, and the study of literature will...
Explanations abound, correcting many a roseate popular illusion, alleviating the author's feelings and his passion for unvarnished verity. They are mostly revelations of people, beheld in their reactions to McDougall or his cartoons of them. J. P. Morgan Sr. was small-minded about his big nose; Rudyard Kipling, rude...
Mr. Kipling when in an imperialistic vein has often railed against the practice of counting noses to determine principles. So obviously did he favor an aristocratic government that men set his objections aside as prejudiced. But Walter Lippmann's challenge to the right of majorities can not be avoided so...
Kipling saw a picture, painted by Burne-Jones and shocked the world of women's colleges by writing the "Vanipire". And then Theda Bara played it in the movies and shocked the rest of the world by saying, "Kiss me, my fool" to one of the funniest looking specimens ever...
Only a slight play of the fancy can now create a new vision of the sailor's leisure. The bunks, rising shelf on shelf, each own its feeble light, and its prostrate Conrad with open book. Thus is the tedium of the long "road to Mandalay" bridged for the men...