Word: modernize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...There was more than social color in her visit. Lady Astor, as every one knows, is a politician. She was England's first lady of Parliament. Her sister, Irene Langhorne (Mrs. Charles Dana) Gibson, has been striving to reinstate the Democracy through the instrumentality of the Brown Derby, bold modern symbol of the Jefferson ethos. Though she was far too discreet to lend herself overtly to the Smith campaign, Lady Astor became part and parcel of one of the strangest Presidential years in U. S. history?as her astute sister had doubtless planned she should. There were no speech-makings...
NEVER has a biblical personnage encountered such ultra-modern handling as ancient Samson experiences at the hands of Mr. Washburn whose first novel stamps him as a twentieth century vulgarizer of the first rank. The classic shades of Milton's "Samson Agonistes" and Saint-Saens' "Samson and Delilah" will have a difficult time adjusting themselves to the ribald ghosts of this most recent characterization of the deliverer of the children of Israel. In fact, "Samson" stands in a fair way to be a literary pariah because of its uncompromising frankness and defiance of the literary code of ethics. If someone...
...polishing off the Liberals, Orator Baldwin popped an epigram: "The Labor creed is Socialism with the courage of its convictions, but modern Liberalism is Socialism without even the courage of its conviction...
What constitutes religious news, according to modern journalistic standards? Usually one of two types of happenings: 1) controversial topics; or 2) scandal, both of which to some degree offend...
...abstruse writings are delectable to a few devotees; but to many they are meaningless, affected, smartly vulgar. Point Counter Point is a rich symphony of modern semi-intellectual London, done into polished prose that will be read slowly and with great relish-by the devotees...