Word: lots
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...essayists. Yet withal, he can cock an interested and appreciative eye at the doings of quite alien spirits, and can write with gusto about the Cardinal de Retz, that insouciant and child-like Lothario, Sam Pepys, and Beaumarchais, of whom he remarks delightedly: "He may have been a bad lot; but he was evidently a good sort...
...foregoing statements and figures are only roughly indicative of the practical rewards. It is obvious, however, that wealth is not the lot of college teachers--unless they happily have independent income. It should be made clear, too, that college work is no sinecure. If one goes at it with that idea, or feels himself gravitating towards it as a "sheltered career," he will suffer rude awakening. Nowhere is the strenuous life more demanded, or competition keener, or intellectual sinew and moral fibre more indispensable, or the spirit of consecrated devotion more searchingly tested. If the assay does not in these...
...just about forgotten that vaudeville is a form of entertainment, and had become almost content with going to the Copley once in a long while and reading the New York criticisms between-vacations. But there seems to have been a lot of publicity for vaudeville lately--a big article all about the Industry in the Satevepost; the notorious Heywood Broun recently driven to the wall by his own contribs and forced to admit that some vaudeville is pretty good; and that story about the lady in the hospital who, on realizing she had missed a whole bill at Keith...
...Once the Kansas legislature, fearful of the way he overshadowed it, denied him his annual appropriation for postage. There is a story that once a letter from England addressed "To the Man who made Kansas Famous" was promptly delivered to him by the Post Office Department. He did a lot for farming. He did as much for Kansas. When he died William Allen White eulogized in the Emporia Gazette: "He was the most useful Kansan of our time...
...have taught the people of Chicago to stomach our ware. The gum-chewers of Manhattan have gobbled it up. It must be popular stuff. It's too bad we can't sell it to the whole country. But it would cost a terrible lot of money to start a newspaper in every city. Why not put our stuff into a magazine and sell it everywhere...