Word: life
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...keep non genuine sallors off the high seas but it is doubtful if they will succeed. It is not only the least organized labor group, but its members are all too ready to sell their Able Seaman's ticket to any person who desires a touch of nautical life. And the summer sailor may still satisfy his yearning for a vacation position on shipboard by the use of a little ingenuity and nerve...
...Villard might do better if he left off his boiled shirt for a few nights, and panhandled his bed and board along the Bowery. "Mr. Villard needs bitterness, not expensive fun. He has had the latter all of his life. Heywood Broun needs a little iron, too. This country just now badly needs a few bitter men like William Lloyd Garrison. It stinks with a well-fed, mellow complacency, the spirit that elected Herbert Hoover...
...grumbled protests, the soured ambitions, and the hushed scandals that have been rife in dormitory "bull sessions" for the past decade find classic expression. Adopting the style of communistic propaganda, typified by "The New Masses", the Lampoon has done bitter battle with every abuse, real or imagined, of Harvard life...
Among historians Dr. Taylor's studies are the standard works on the history of ancient and medieval intellectual life. Philosophers turn to his books not only to profit by his researches but to obtain the benefit of his own interpretations. To the general public his writings offer an intellectual stimulus only equaled by his delightful style. His works are among the few that are both significant to the expert and interesting to the layman...
...Taylor's place among American men of letters is all the more note-worthy because, like Francis Bacon, he took up the search for knowledge purely as a hobby after the stress of a busy life of affairs. Too many scholarly treatises read as if written from a painful sense of duty; Dr. Taylor, a former practising lawyer, writes purely for dis-interested enjoyment, yet compares favorably with his professional contemporaries both in substance and in vitality. Particularly interesting to undergraduates should be the lectures of a man who is notable for having brought a penetrating simplicity into a field...