Word: looke
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that is just my trouble. Never in my life have I earned $16.66666666666666 per minute. But why shouldn't you give me a chance to? Why leave me at the mercy of my female child, aged eleven, who may win your $100 prize and look down upon my grey hairs in scorn - when they become grey. Should I not have a chance to write and tell you why TIME is just as important to fully grown men and women as to boys and girls...
Among the other interesting columns in your magazine, to which I look forward with eagerness every week, is that devoted to football, as your novel chronicling of the exploits of various teams has a particular charm...
...flames in the movies. It has flared up most recently in "We Moderns" at the Metropolitan, a picture based, it is said, on Israel Zangwill's play about the younger generation in England. In this film Colleen Moore, the original flaming youth girl, sets out to make the flapper look old-fashioned and outdo all her previous feats in one glorious burst of flamboyant adolescence...
There is a certain charm about the curious costumes our grandmothers wore. They are also slightly ludicrous. Therefore the costumes in this entertainment fill a double role and help a lot. They are pleasant to look at and easy for the comedian to jest about. Beyond these costumes the piece is a trifle routine. The music, the jokes and the romance seem to reminisce too much...
...What is the greatest benefit of Harvard education at its best?" If one were asked this question, perhaps the truest answer would be: "The awakening of the critical spirit." To arouse this critical spirit in young minds which look upon truth as something fixed and established to be handed down from above by "those who know" and taken on faith; to change a student's mental attitude from one of receptivity to critical activity--these are among the benefits conferred by lectures of the type which at Harvard are common, though, to be sure, not universal...