Word: models
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...true student cannot be bound by such restrictions. He will see in Emerson the model of what his attitude should be. "If there are conflicting evidences, why not state them? If there is not ground for a candid thinker to make up his mind, yea or nay,--why not suspend the judgement? . . . . I neither affirm nor deny. I stand here to try the case. I am here to consider...
...masculine moorings" by the frail creatures whose name is "woman." It might be suggested to Mr. Wells, that the influence of the primary school teacher upon the character of the boy is not so great as he may think; that every boy has his own father as his model of masculine virtue. Mr. Wells has considered that, but he gets no comfort from the thought. The father isn't a fit model. He too is a victim of the system, says Mr. Wells...
With the exception of gold plate, the feast was a perfect model of those which used to be given by the Tsar's representatives, worthy of comparison with the best efforts of kings and princes and financiers...
...second lesson derived from this latest explosion in the automobile world is the growing demand for closed cars and the effort of manufacturers to get them into quantity production. If this can be done, unit costs in a closed car can be kept even with an open model, despite the greater material and workmanship called for by the former. Enthusiasts now prophesy that in a few years open cars will be built only on special order-as closed cars were when the motor industry first started...
...Significance. The most notable of the caricatures, Aesthete: Model 1924, first published in the maiden issue of The American Mercury, gave Mr. Boyd the intense satisfaction of stirring to obscene and frenzied anger a whole Greenwich Village nestful of half-baked literati whose baseless pretensions to significance it is Mr. Boyd's spirited but impersonal mission in life to deny. The Yeats, Moore and Stephens portraits, while of small dimensions, are of a purity which few contemporary critics could well equal. Add to these considerations the facts that Mr. Boyd is the thorough master of several languages, both dead...