Word: nationalism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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While LA PRENSA has been so described by others before you, the phrase is far from giving an accurate summing up of this great newspaper. LA PRENSA, as a matter of fact, is not "the paper of the working classes," but is the paper of the Argentine nation. Strictly independent and always quick to defend any class that might be subjected to injustice, LA PRENSA has been characterized by the high sense of responsibility of its editors. LA PRENSA is as a matter of fact too scholarly to be "the paper of the working classes," and attentive reading...
...cornerstone, and be pleased to find many more by the same author graven here and there within the edifice. The author was diminutive twinkle-eyed the Rev. Dr. Henry van Dyke, retired patriarch of Princeton University and of U. S. letters, a close friend of Dr. Irvine. Never the nation's laureate, Dr. van Dyke was yet to have a work of his attended, upon its first public hearing, by the first lady and gentleman of the land. At the dedicatory services there was to be sung a new hymn,* the first verse of which came...
...American" or "Bigger and Better Music Week," as one might suspect, but the Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge Festival, so-called for accuracy's sake after the extraordinary lady who built the marble temple, provided for its maintenance, inveigled Congress into accepting it as a gift to the nation, and who personally arranges the programs, invites the artists and pays them...
Then she was moved to insure the permanency of her creation by making the nation responsible for it. To generosity ($100,000 and $28,200 per annum) she had to add ingenuity, but she achieved her end. Now-for expense is no object-Europe is combed at her behest, native genius is more than ever encouraged and at least one art flourishes at the political but not the artistic U. S. capital...
Congressman Theodore Elijah Burton of Ohio: "Speaking before the Republican Women of Cleveland I flayed the U. S. people for being 'demoralized' where national affairs are concerned and devoting their whole attention to Bud Stillman's girl, 'Peaches'* Browning, Jack Dempsey and the world series. Said I: 'I consider calling that little hussy, "Peaches," a reflection on peach dishes or brandy, and the less said about her husband the better. There is no fool like an old fool. But let us dismiss this trivial gossip and consider subjects of importance to the nation...