Word: modernize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...month ago, Judge Atwell called upon two policemen to testify that they had bought a pint of whiskey from Mrs. Angelina de Luca, defendant. Attorney Serri, counsel for the defense, remarked in his summation: "A modern miracle is a prohibition agent who tells the truth on the witness stand." Judge Atwell bristled, thought of the impeccable Texas constabulary. After the conviction he loudly rebuked Mr. Serri, said: "His recital of the bootleggers' game is astonishing to the court, and I cannot understand how any reputable attorney could have such first hand information. . . . In my country had you made such...
Unlike these two Englishmen is Zuloaga, called the modern El Greco, the modern Goya, and other foolish titles. A bald and portly Latin with a bushy moustache which grows lighter in color and smaller with the years, Zuloaga is spectacularly and entirely Spanish. His work, though loud, is sound. Like many fashionable artists, he has ingratiating traits of personality which cause his patrons to regard him as a gentle and delectable monster. When he exhibited in the U. S. four years ago, he sold $100,000 of paintings on the first day of the show and Governor Fuller outdid himself...
...Significance. With sure instinct for phenomena of "high society" Mrs. Wharton discerns a newish problem-the sad lot which falls to children of selfish modern parents, divorced. Whether it is a sadder lot than falls to children of selfish modern parents, undivorced, is not the question; and fortunately all question is subordinated to the acute analyses of scatter-brained complications of parents, quarrels among sophisticated children, well-bred war between their middle-aged bachelor guardian and the widow of his choice. Falling short of greatness, The Children is an eminently entertaining tragi-comedy of the times. Sinners will ignore, pharisees...
Education is a matter of growth through practice of useful occupations rather than the acquisition of irrelevant book-learning. (Dewey's "project method" has been grossly misinterpreted in modern schools which "let the children do what they want.") Education must continue throughout life...
...significance of the tragedy is that Merrill and Ronne were well-seasoned pilots and that Lindbergh's Falcon was one of the most efficient of modern planes...