Word: mankind
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...liked to be preached to, it mattered not who preached, so long as the hearers were none the wiser. When his reputation chased him from one pulpit to another, he found reasons for taking up counterfeiting: men had to have currency and he a living. Why, he would do mankind a service and after he had got rich, succor the poor! But his first bad dollars bought him a cell; and for several years he had to concentrate on breaking jail...
Does not an actor contribute as much to the needs of mankind as the expert manager of a tack factory...
...Does not an actor contribute as much to the needs of mankind as the expert manager of a tack factory...
...whom we take to be not in entire agreement on other matters with his eminence. Here is a dilemma, but escape from it is found in some words of the moderator's when he asks, "But what are all the arts and sciences, save as they serve mankind?" They are nothing and Harvard has always known that and acted on the knowledge as its guide...
...only exceeded by his reputation as a writer of parodies and humorous satires. Many of his writings have appeared in "Vanity Fair", "Life", and "Scribner's" and he is also well known for his longer works, "A Parody Outline of History", "Perfect Behavior", "Aunt Polly's Story of Mankind" and "Mr. and Mrs. Haddock Abroad...