Word: loon
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...scorns 'monsoon,' 'baboon' and 'loon...
...rebut the prevalent wail that man, the individual, has fallen from his former high estate to the status of cog in machine. Historian Van Loon raises considerable doubt as to that former altitude, these present depths. And in a sound exposition of business expansion, Julius Klein recalls that an ancient Periclean law gave each Athenian the right to own five slaves, whereas every inhabitant of the U. S. today has at his disposal the power equivalent of 150 slaves. Human happiness lies in using the machine without worshiping it. Brilliantly, Bertrand Russell predicates the only remedy for science...
...Famed arty town; home of Hendrik Willem Van Loon, Rose O'Neill, Alan Dinehart, William McFee...
...Eugene O'Neill, John Dos Passos, Ernest Heminway, Robert Hillyer, William Ellery Leonard, Louis Untermeyer, Witter Bynner, Elizabeth Madox Roberts and others. This is the first year book of American literature and is highly recommended by Carl Van Doren, Elinor Wylie, Glenn Frank, Zona Gale and Hendrick Willem Van Loon...
...Wells, British writer, tied himself to a literary tradition by announcing last week that his forthcoming book, Meanwhile, would carry illustrations executed by H. G. Wells. Some other writers who have made money with books illustrated by themselves have been Milt Gross, William Makepeace Thackeray, Hendrik Willem van Loon, Ernest Thompson Seton, Howard Pyle...