Word: moderns
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...subjected to ponderous analysis, last week, by Sir Edwin Forsyth Stockton, potent British textile merchant. His most vital point: "The recent general turning up of trousers at the bottom has opened up a very important branch of trade, since it has created a demand for the fancy sock. The modern man of taste wants his socks exposed to view and to harmonize with his trousers and the general scheme of his dress...
...secluded retreat for "sweet girl graduates." Last week the hustling city of New York learned that for the first time women students at Columbia exceeded men in the university's total of 34,997. And last week two new colleges undertook to specialize in fitting women for strenuous modern life. Rich men's daughters assembled at Webber College, Babson Park, Florida. There they will spend the winter, learn to administer estates, specialize in the care of securities, real estate, hope to attain the degree of "B.B."-bachelor of business. Business men who sent their daughters included: Dr. Frederick...
Similar parallelism should be used in the staging of the plays. Shakespearean costuming in the hands of a musico-therapeutist could hardly be other than modern. The plays themselves are in no hands safer from mutilation than those of an osteopath. And the relative ideals of the two funds may be accurately projected by having the Stratford fund produce the plays that are beyond doubt Shakespearean while the Broadway Cathedral of the Bard rallies the flagging hearts of Baconians...
...which we live have got very far away from those in which wandering scholars exercised the leadership in learning. Few if any communities still exist in which the approach to learning has not been paved with biases of all sorts. The commonest of these biases seem to spring in modern times from the allegiance which is bound up with religion and nationality. But I believe that no communities exist where such biases count for less than in some of the great universities of our time. Whatever be your religion or your nationality, whether indeed you care to claim either...
...adequate impressions of a country which is not our own. Few men know much about their own country, and to train oneself as an observer abroad usually requires much experience. There are many things in which all countries and all civilizations are mor or less alike. Thanks to this modern era of communication, we draw in all parts of the world upon much the same sources of supply...