Word: manly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Inside the town hall, 25 elders and the parish priest were solemnly deciding who should play the 16 major roles of the 300-year-old Passion Play, scheduled to begin its first season in 16 years next May 21. As each part was filled, the town crier-a young man with shoulder-length blond hair-wrote the names on a blackboard for the people...
Last week, on the same program, Godfrey was inclined to forgive the swoon-happy teen-agers because he had spotted the real villain. He announced that "an over-zealous publicity man was the guy who . . . got 30 or 40 of them right down in the front row and told them that they should agitate and squeal and holler . . ." Then, presenting Bill Lawrence ("the boy you love so much"), Godfrey made one final plea: "He loves your appreciation, but you don't have to squeal. Just applaud him when he gets through...
...Anyhow, it was a chance for a notable meeting that the young philosopher had no intention of missing. Putting on his most sedate black suit and black hat, he set out for New Haven to call on the distinguished gentleman who should, he thought, turn out to be a man...
...felt a little foolish bustling down the street all dressed in black on that hot day in 1927. But he felt more foolish still when he saw the tall young man in tennis flannels who opened the door of the dean's house...
...Dean Hutchins in?" he asked. "I'm Hutchins," replied the young man in flannels. "Come in and tell me what you know about the law of evidence." From that meeting on, Philosopher Mortimer Adler was to learn a lot about the dean-and so was the rest of the world. Out of their acquaintance was to come a challenge aimed at everything that many U.S. colleges and universities had come to hold most estimable: spreading campuses, more & more courses, a steady stream of glossy new facts. The sharp question that Hutchins was to put to U.S. higher education...