Word: ladders
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Ladder-If the 20th Century does not suit, transmigrate to the 25th...
...they are Americans. And to an American, even in college teaching, there must be progress toward position, prestige, or life becomes futile Unlike the Englishman who sees his lifework in being a tutor, these young hopefuls see in a tutorship merely apprentice work, the first step in the social ladder whose top rung is a full professorship. The third difficulty with these tutors is that they are, and again for the most part, men who have not finished their own university training and who, therefore, cannot attack the problem of becoming fit tutors because of the pressure of their...
...Ladder. In order to reconcile the hardships of life with his faith in a benevolent Deity, Playwright J. Frank Davis has evolved a quaint philosophy of reincarnation. After an intolerably unhappy 13th Century, a group of people squirm, reincarnated, into the 17th Century, from there into the 19th Century, from there into the 20th Century, where, at last, matters are so divinely ordered that the heroine can have both a career and a husband with a good job and the right personality. Such a philosophy of transmigration, in short, as might make the Buddha so far forget himself...
Blessed with the spiritual power of that world of dreams where men are gods and women are divine--the modern poet tosses his spurs into the air, Pegasus into the clouds, and scales Mt. Olympus with a step-ladder. From one of the current magazines flows fanciful and free the fairest flickers of such fervent fluttering--and there are these delightful lines...
...answer probably lies in the contagious thrill which all newspaper work holds. Most of us, at one time or another, after deciding that we didn't after all want to be a policeman or drive the rear end of a hook and ladder truck, evolve the theory that we are natural born newspaper men. And there is a bit of the journalist in many of us. A CRIMSON competition helps to show how much...