Word: manly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...considering these various fields of human endeavor, and methods of progress, we can consider, first of all, either the industries or the types of jobs in which a man may work, and we can consider for the moment the man as interested in some particular, field along either line, and that in any event a "castle's move" may, be possible as an outlook to future progress...
...sent to college; and that was just ideal. For of course, at college one doesn't work; one just pretends to be sophisticated; one doesn't grow up,--one becomes what some call indifferent. This was wonderful for Peter, for he didn't want ever to be a man...
...still Peter seethed with activity. He strained and strained trying to think of something to do in which you got a long way but didn't have to give up anything to get there. Finally he hit upon it,--he would become a social lion and an activities man. That was the combination. You spent your days with the best men, and in the evening you strutted your wares before the pride of the city's society...
...right. The raccoon coat is very nearly extinct. But is he not mistaken as to the cause of its disappearance? Perhaps a more effective reason for its demise was its adoption by the drugstore cowboy and the "Harvard Square student" and a consequent bringing of the college man to a realization of his grotesqueness. --Dean Gauss of Princeton, in the Saturday Evening Post...
Woman and religion have always been closely related from the Vestal Virgins right down to Amie Temple McPherson. If the General Assembly approves the recommendation of its General Council and allows woman the right to sit within the church in full equality with man, to serve as elder, evangelist, or minister, it will merely be granting its womankind rights long enjoyed in other walks of life. Where would Queen Cleopatra, or that financial wizard and presidential candidate. Victoria Woodhull, or even "Captain Victor Barker", who deceived her valet and for six years masqueraded in London as a war hero, have...