Word: looke
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Once I sat in the gallery while a great tragedy was being performed. A shabbily dressed man next to me was carried away with the play to such an extent that when the villian raised his dagger, he cried "Look out." That was the triumph of illusion--and the theatre. Perhaps a mortgage hovered over that man's house, but for two hours he laughed and cried. He had touched the grand fact of human life, that at bottom...
Research of individual personality, brain tests, and mental analyses are products of the last few years. People are gradually beginning to realize that it is possible to look inside a man and understand his actions from the previous experiences and habits of his mind. Criminal punishment and the problem of the insane have only slightly benefitted from these new methods. A great deal can be done in the future along all lines of personal welfare. Dr. Allport's efforts deserve the most serious consideration...
Governments are prone to look on books as if they were so much paper and ink, and not as expressions of real civilization. No matter how much the choices of each government may be criticised, then, an interest will be aroused which did not exist before, which may result in a closer examination of governmental censorship and taxation. If the interest in foreign literature grows, it is even possible that Congress may be forced to repeal the infamous "tax on knowledge", which makes foreign books so inordinately expensive in America...
Four venerable men advanced slow into the dining room of the Hotel Holenden, Cleveland, sat down to dinner. The affair did not look, at first glance exciting. Yet President Coolidge and Chief Justice Taft were sorry not be there; they sent long telegrams. Other messages from famed U. S. men* poured in: "Congratulations," they said; "Many Happy Returns of the Day." For these four old men?J. A. Smith, Congressman Theodore E. Burton, Harvey D. Goulder, Probate Judge Alexander Hadden?had all completed 50 years of law practice in Cleveland, were being dined in consequence by the Cleveland Bar Association...
Hard on the heels of an unprecedented break in wheat came a severe reaction in the stockmarket. With money rates rising slowly, and an evident tendency on the part of Secretary Mellon (who, incidentally, is Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board) to look askance at the large sums of money loaned hy banks on stocks and bonds, such a fall in share prices is not fundamentally surprising. There has been the further factor of evident over production in many basic industries to give pause to undue optimism...