Word: lively
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wanted more blood." You don't know what you are talking about and you are what decent Southern people call "nigger lovers." The Blackmans were bad niggers, bullies, bootleggers, makers of moonshine and thieves. Last year their father shot out the eyes of a little white boy. We live in harmony with our good niggers-strange ties of affection exist between the white gentry and the darkies. There had not been a lynching in Rapides Parish in twenty-five years, yet you call this "the customary thing." Be ashamed of your slander...
...constant reader of TIME, the boss's copies, of course. Live in Detroit, not Manhattan. Good shows come to Detroit usually several months after the critics have passed on them in TIME. Haven't money to waste on not good shows, haven't time to go over old copies of TIME to find what TIME said several months ago. I might file clippings from the Theatre column...
Jacob Ruppert, brewer, owner of the New York Yankees, vowed last week he would never marry. Said he: "A hundred years from now there will be no marriages. . . . The only way marriage can be a success is for the husband and wife to live separately and see each other only a few times each week. . . . Married women are the most successful companions in the world-for the bachelors. ... If it becomes necessary for me to find companionship, I'll go to an Old Man's home...
This democratic country: let us not forget that we live in a nation where democracy is the enduring keynote of social and political life. And that brings us to the larger question--has Harvard fitted us to live usefully in a democratic country, to serve as leaders of a democratic people? We hear comparatively little today of democracy, and much of big business; but the United States will not be ruled forever by the men who have money. The time may be not yet, but the day will come when those who exploit the people shall no longer deceive them...
...rather vague way; what was meant by education. Some of us came here to carry on the traditions of the medieval clerk, to lay aside the vanities of the world, intent upon enriching the mind with the wisdom that is found in books. Some of us came here "to live", as our present-day novelists would put it. But the majority of us came here to seek education by choosing what was most happy and wholesome in our books and in our companionships...