Word: meanly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...obscene, immoral or any of the other things. The statements are not aimed against any individual. This table before the Court, or this chair, certainly could not be slandered. Any one who read Colonel Mitchell's statement would recognize that it is a fine play of words that really mean nothing...
...these arguments advanced in behalf of the accused could stand it would mean that a private could berate his captain, a major could lampoon his colonel, with the result that discipline would vanish and the Army become...
...first place, college too often does not mean to the student what it should: four years of preparation in life. "College is life," says the undergraduate; and in consequence, all the grim earnestness of life is not postponed until the real business of life is entered upon, but is seized at once. Success--the bright star of every ambitious man--already dazzles his eyes. Success he must have now. And since popular clamor is taken as the measure of success, it is no wonder a student is often misled to seek it in those paths which bring immediate recognition from...
...Latin temperament to inartistic excess. With strong physiologic emphasis, the story is told of a medical genius who attends his best friend, an engineering genius. He and the friend's wife are overpowered by love for each other, she becoming enceinte. Death of the husband will mean life for them, and the doctor brings it about with a slow poison. Through tortuous labyrinths, accompanied by an idiot's violin whining of life and death, the guilty pair develop their deeds from dark sins to a triumph over destiny...
...beyond being financially profitable," continued Mr. MacFadden, "the scheme is one which may be useful in other ways. The art of the theatre should not be used for propaganda, but it should be propaganda. This sounds like a paradox, but what I mean is that plays can be effectual and lasting, can be true art, only when they deal with matters vital to the people of the world, only when they strike truly and deep. Too many of today's comedies are based on clever lines: they are distorted photographs of modern superficialities...