Word: mankind
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...they may mingle with you in spirit. I want you to feel that your purposes will be their purposes, and to know that they are still rooting for you to give another lesson to the world of what a real 100% American is-God's greatest gift to mankind." ¶ Was received by President Doumergue of France, whom he assured that New York City would keep on growing for generations. ¶ Was not, despite excited advance notices by his friends, decorated with the Legion of Honor. ¶ Announced in one breath: "I feel myself enormously benefited by the insight...
Darwin to Date. It was 68 years since that gentlest of men, Charles Darwin, had trundled into position a battery of facts, collected patiently for many years, and blown mankind from its citadel of Biblical belief in its special divine origin. Sir Arthur Keith, whose audience included a kingdomful of radio listeners and a worldful of newspaper readers, proposed to review the Darwinian batteries; to report on their condition and any changes made in them since Darwin's time; and to affirm, once for all, the official stand of British science on Darwin's proposition that humanity...
Rythm. Dr. G. P. Bidder extended Sir Arthur's history of mankind back to pelagic times, saying: "We owe our appreciation of dancing, poetry, music and our sense of rhythm to the actions we made when we were only tiny blobs of jelly flagellates, millions of years...
Prisoners Sacco and Vanzetti refused last rites from the prison priest. They would die as they had lived, they said. Faith in a communistic order of mankind was enough for them...
...cannot taste her chicken and custard without swallowing her bean soup and sauerkraut in the same performance. There is, first of all, a dancer, Harriet Hoctor, who, as a fairy doll, breezes across the stage like melody and floats away on a fancy that all the rest of mankind is clopping through life with one foot in a mud bog. George Kelly, who is perhaps the most deadly propagandist among U. S. playwrights, provided sketches which, artfully unclimactic, bore the audience into fierce exasperation by faithfully recording the yapping on the veranda of a summer hotel, a golf course...