Word: merited
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...matter is that one sailor may call another a "gob," but since the return of the Fleet from the wonderful cruise to Australia he is more liable to use the Australian word and pronunciation and call his shipmate "Silor" with the "i" pronounced "eye." This entire matter should hardly merit all this discussion as it is our knowledge that it is rarely necessary to call the sailor at all-just the sounding of "mess gear" or "pay call" on the bugle being sufficient. At any rate-we never call each other "bluejackets...
...balloon tires of burlesque protect anyone it runs over from being injured. Mme. Momoro is the chauffeuse, adroit aloof, intelligent, guiding the satire until it is time for her to step out of it a human being like the rest. Mr. Tarkington has written books of more uniform merit but never one with more admirable and colorful combinations of his prime characteristic, good humor, with his serious aim, social enlightenment...
...Miss Bainter vivaciously, "there have been repeated accusations of salaciousness hurled at the modern play. Some writers have gone so far as to say that the sole support of the present day drama is the 'savoursome' side and its potalulity. This is untrue. The present day plays have intrinsic merit enough to hold the interest of the audience. This can hardly be said of the French farce which is--well--very risque...
...Because of their tendency to leave as soon as a little more money is offered them; in other words because of no sense of apprenticeship and of growth by degrees on merit...
...last, Death comes to apoplectic H. B. Lockhart. Significance. The volume has as much literary style as a good sales letter. But action is plentiful and the book 'is informative. It will probably furnish to younger businessmen the inspiration that its jacket advertises. Even as a relaxative its merit is far above most fiction of the idly amorous type. Also, it is probably authentic. (The country's leading stove works are now in combine.) That Villain Lockhart was founded on fact, however, is doubtful. His tactics are consistently those of the mucker football player who not only gouges...