Word: mankind
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Negro dance. ... The American ideal of service ... coincides, psychologically, with the norm of every negroid tribe. ... To Europe, and to Europe alone, has the task been entrusted to guard the sacred fire of the spirit from extinction during the long night of the spirit whicli now lies before mankind...
Said Mussolini: "Love is the prime pastime of mankind. . . . Modern woman cannot get away from love. . . . She is no new woman...
Said Philanthropist Adler: "In giving the planetarium to Chicago, I have a threefold conception. . . . The third is to emphasize that all mankind, rich and poor, powerful and weak, as well as all nations, here and abroad, constitute part of one universe, and that under the great celestial firmament there is no division or cleavage, but rather interdependence and unity...
...Marion Marjorie (Mrs. Worthington) Scranton, tall; stylish daughter-in-law of the family of the founder of famed Scranton, Pa. Daughter-in-law Scranton was elected to the National Committee this spring, after narrowly escaping defeat. Because she is dashingly attractive ("God's greatest gift to mankind," she was once called in a nominating speech), some of her fellow Pennsylvanians feared she might be too dashing. She probably smokes cigarets and such like, they said. But Andrew W. Mellon approved her and Mrs. Scranton was elected to succeed the late John Wanamaker's daughter, Mrs. Barclay H. Warburton...
...striped tie victim of occasional snobbery, if this sentiment has played midwife to the birth of a new ostracism, then Harvard has once again gone too far. When typewriters, pajamas, and cameras go red, blue and flesh, the Senior has opportunity to render his first service to waiting mankind, by calming a world gone color mad with the dignity of baccalaureate black. More that that, his immediate attention to duty might relieve Harvard of the stigma, at present deserved, of self-consciousness...