Word: mixing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...roar of ugly Holborn, he ruminates: Catholicism sat like a sister of mercy by the deathbed of its mother, the ancient Culture. Protestantism was the nurse of a lusty child, modern civilisation." Passing a huge Dissenters' "chapel," he says: "It is becoming impossible for those who mix at all with their fellow men to believe that the grace of God is distributed denominationally...
...evils, seems to be the appointment of instructors who are men before they are professors. Closer contact of the Faculty with the the individual student might well go along with this. Then, too, it might be well to get more of the English 17 spirit into college courses and mix saws, hammers, and electric bulbs with the discussion of lofty theory. The result might be a few less Babbitts and, hot house lilies and a few more men of the English type; men who can close down a desk at the War Office at three in the afternoon...
...little things. He does not fit and he gets in the way. Finally he completely shatters a ladies' civic club meeting. Meanwhile he has come to know the denizens of an old men's home nearby. In the last act, he comes to realize that generations may mix but cannot blend. He goes to live among his cronies at the home...
...long light period and are beginning to see stars at night. Donald Mix, our radio operator, is now operating nightly from midnight to 3 a. m. eastern standard time, on 175 metres. So you may expect full details of our trip soon by radio...
...Best People. If the visitor will promise himself not to take this play seriously, he will probably have a rather amusing evening. For it is another younger generation jeremiad and proposes that two rising scions of the wealthy Lennoxes marry, respectively, chauffeur and a chorus girl, to mix into the decadent family veins a strain of common sense, that presumably comes with commoners...