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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...point where tools and selective judgement are vital. The medieval whose basic creed denied legitimacy to the temporal things of this earthly life could well afford to regard his education as something apart: today, with different standards and different conditions to be met, such an attitude must inevitably mean suicide...
...little hope left for his resolution to have special counsel present the case to a grand jury, Senator Robinson dropped his resolution. The result was considered in some quarters as a victory for Secretary Mellon, his popularity and reputation for rectitude; in other quarters it was taken to mean that the Senate did not want to face the facts...
...dial on the arm that holds the torch. Diverting new symbolism the Statue will bear if the project is permitted. Not that Liberty will be marking time, on the contrary it will be up to the minute. To the scornful who jibe at our national efficiency, the watch will mean that we are a nation of time-servers, but others will find different interpretations. Kager-gazing foreigners will see at least one sign which they can read and understand. Though time flies it is yet everywhere the same...
Colds in the head are a frightful handicap to columns and courses. So this column must suffer. But "airy, fairy Lillian"? She rather helped, what? Gentlemen, shall we join the ladies? I mean, after all, what...
They remember how Mary Adams was afflicted with malignant inferiority as a girl in provincial little Lebanon. Her father was head hawker in the public market, a loud man with a mean soul. Her mother was doting and desperately middle class. Mary was a pretty girl stricken with panic by society's failure to come running to her feet more often than it did. Her nature preened itself and craned for admiration, thus repelling it and thrusting the girl into bitter, pitiful snobbery. She grew to despise Brand, or any one, who thought well of her. Yet so determined...