Word: mankind
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...August 28--Whether mankind be happier in a state of Nature or in Society...
...Roof. The English theatre can be as sentimental as it can be grim. In this play, sentimental John Galsworthy, assisted by sentimental Producer Charles Hopkins, has demonstrated an overwhelming faith in mankind. It is a play, or rather the rough draft of a play, about four sets of British folk in a small Paris hotel. In one room are three men and a 1 boy come to Paris-Berris to them, as they are actually British-for a lark. In another are two lovers, enjoying the prelude to what promises to be a grand passion. A porky gentleman...
...purpose of the books is to reorganize the essential knowledge of mankind, so that the individual may be able to prepare himself better for a world that has begun to present the most difficult and intricate problems...
...selling Japanese goods. Convicted shopkeepers who said they could not pay were kicked back into Anti-Japan Association jails, kept there on persuasive starvation rations. This queer kind of justice, flagrantly illegal in every way, was everywhere upheld by Chinese public opinion, the opinion of one-fourth of mankind...
...which Mr. Wells addressed himself ten or twelve years ago. The first of these was "The Outline of History," the second, "The Outline of Science," and the latest, now being published, is a survey of Economics. The purpose of these books is to reorganize the essential knowledge of mankind, so that the individual may get his mind in order, and prepare himself to act intelligently in a world that has begun to present the most difficult and intricate problems...