Word: life
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...there is one complaint above all others from which the whole of American life most acutely suffers, it is timidity--should one say, the entire absence?--of minority opinion. Yet so needful is minority opinion to the health of democratic institutions that it should be encouraged at all costs. Where everybody thinks alike, there, be sure, is mental stagnation and spiritual death...
Harvard University stands on a cultural soil three centuries deep. People elsewhere are scandalized at the repeated explosions which detonate the political and intellectual life of New England. Does it occur to them that such explosions may be vastly to the credit of a community? Does it occur to them that the deeper scandal may be absence of such explosions? --The Boston Globe...
Loving her, he had married someone else; marrying her, he loved someone else. One almost finds himself sympathizing with poor Alden. This, however, is a pitfall. As one reads deeper into the significance of the picture Miss Bryner is endeavoring to put into real life one realizes that Bennington is a coward. It is, indeed, a strange dilemma he has worked himself into but at the same time it is a highly possible one. The thread of the story is vastly more confused, however, with the death of his wife, his engagement to the woman he thought he loved...
...like Judge Jr., or rather used to like him, for the original Judge Jr. is at present editing "Life" (Now 10 cents!--Advt.) instead of Judge, then you may like this collection of mixings they are gotten up in his same so-called collegiate manner which automatically rubs most normal people the wrong...
...Early life of Columbus", Professor Usher, Widener...