Word: modernize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Even Mr. Smith's plan of personal liberty and States' rights and State local option while perfectly sound Democratic doctrine is not in line with modern thought in sumptuary legislation. The people of the United States have passed the strictly States' rights construction period and there have always been definite limitations on personal liberty. Our country has developed from a federation of loosely linked States into a closely knit nation. The Constitution has given the Federal Government the right to legislate for the nation on the liquor question and the Federal Government probably will continue to possess...
...MAKERS OF MODERN ARABIA-Ameen Rihani- Houghton Mifflin...
...recent vogue for making Shakespeare modern has extended itself for the coming year to the producers of musical comedy. Like an abdicating heavyweight champion in their homely adoration, George White and others have decided to honor Shakespeare in the only way they know, with naked nymphs and syncopated madrigals. White's notion is a "modern musical version of Romeo and Juliet" but last week, rendered foolish by the astonishing success of his Scandals, he forgot about Shakespeare and said that he was going into the talking movie business. He was tired of soothing temperamental stars...
...maintained that modern exhaustive analysis has brought the game to the point at which one of his shrewdness can draw every game he plays, that theoretically to gain a victory one must dare an unsound combination. If, sufficiently intricate, its weakness fails to be detected, the game is won. Alternative is defeat. Thus less imaginative plodders can take advantage of more brilliant players' hazardous conceptions...
...School Board, J. Lewis Coath, its former president and the arch-enemy of William McAndrew, unexpectedly argued against the new textbooks. Soon voted down, he later confessed that his resistance had been due to a desire to "hang up a record." Out of Chicago schools were ruled: Modern History, by Hayes and Moon; Founders of Freedom in America, by Corson and Cornish; History of the American People, by Mc-Laughlin; Story of Our Country, by West & West; School History of the United States, by Hart; and An American History, by Muzzey. One other chronicle which had been criticized...