Word: mentioned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Special mention must be made of Major General Lord Edward Gleichen (former Count Gleichen and son of Prince Victor of Hohenlohe-Langen-burg), who as a soldier and an author is a man of great distinction. Under his direction the above six volumes have been admirably prepared and set forth. The division of the material has been made wisely and in such a way as to cause the reader a minimum of inconvenience...
Marion L. Burton, President of the University of Michigan: "Dissatisfied with the selections of Bishop Brent, I named four Americans as the greatest 20th centurians: Roosevelt, Ford, Edison, Orville Wright. I gave honorable mention to Woodrow Wilson, Lloyd George...
...doctrine of heredity holds water, the present cafeteria "hath had elsewhere its setting and cometh from afar." As a proof, not much after 1636 one finds that "Beer and bread are the standard breakfast foods both frequently sour," according to a recent Harvard historian,--who also goes on to mention that an "Indian was generally the scullion." Thus one realizes that the present day quasi-barbaric dish is ineradicably rooted in hoary traditions. The staple winter diet at that time was salt meat, followed often by "pye." At a later period an Oxoulan wrote of us that. "There was much...
...face of the author's enthusiasm swaddled in legalistic conceptions Professor Murray's Attic sanity is most reassuring. The author is too enamoured of the grandiose conception and presumptive powers of a world state, not to mention the magnificently troubled legal waters that would lave its moral boundaries in which he would be so expert a pilot if not fisherman. Professor Murray points out that our feet are still on the ground and provides a sobering antidote to the effects of too literal an acceptance of Mr. Keen's personal convictions...
...tingling book' which is 'making enough money for its author and publisher as it is.' But it was recognized instantly by the congregation, which crowded around the rabbi after the sermon and joined in attacking it as Haunch, Paunch and Jowl* [reviewed in TIME, Jan. 14]. Mention in the book of East Side gangs, politicians and houses of prostitution caused Rabbi Schulman to say that 'the book drips in lecherousness and is steeped in sensuality.' To a newspaper reporter I pointed out that the author of the book has been dead five years, that...