Word: laggards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...opening of The Taming of the Shrew in Los Angeles, Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne gave swishy latecomers the works. As each laggard strolled or strutted down the aisle, Lunt & Fontanne stopped dead in their lines, she to bow graciously, he to cry "Welcome!" Once he said: "For the benefit of those people who just came in, I'll play the scene again...
...toto, instead of in spots, brought within the Monroe Doctrine's sphere, before Germany or another power moves in. According to Admiral Byrd: "No foreign expedition has so much as looked upon [it]. . . . We have penetrated it ... lived in it ... built in it." The U. S. was laggard in claiming its discoveries in the Arctic and Pacific he argued: let it not lose this last rich find in a shrinking world...
...resented the attentions of its gladhanding, often sanctimonious secretaries. Latterly the Y. M. C. A. in the U. S., with its $212,000,000 in property and endowment and its $48,000,000 income, has been accused-because its high command eschews politico-economic controversy-of being socially laggard, of being a closed corporation in which working secretaries tend to become older and older. Nevertheless, if the Y. M. C. A. has diluted its Christian message in nominally Christian nations, it has become a powerful force for Christian leadership elsewhere in the world. Its international organization, built over many years...
This statement seems to imply that the Department of the Classics is somewhat of a laggard in the attempt to combine its own field with other related fields in a general program of humanism. The exact opposite is the truth. The first combined field of the sort described was not History and Literature but "Literature," in which either Greek or Latin is combined with some Modern Language. This plan was initiated by members of the Departments of the Classics and Modern Languages in 1903, History and Literature following in 1906. I happened to be a member of both committees...
...years ago in India. The geological character of the ground, however, indicated that Dr. Broom's creatures lived relatively late in the Glacial Age, by which time definitely human types such as Peking Man, Piltdown Man and Heidelberg Man had already appeared. Plesianthropus and Paranthropus thus appeared as laggard survivors of a much earlier evolutionary spurt-"conservative cousins of man," says Dr. Gregory, "and progressive cousins of the modern apes...