Word: needs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...last year and hoped by now that he had been returned to some legitimate work- or is there such an army of these men that no legitimate work can be found for them all? We can't think of a shadow of a reason why John should need a watchdog or, if he does, why Calvin Coolidge shouldn't pay for it out of his own pocket as any other father would. Are we to wind up by charging the American people for a nurse for Calvin Coolidge's fourth cousin's baby girl Gwendolen...
...faith of the producers of such a work is justified. "Everyman" is a powerful, elemental drama, treating, with unadorned directness, mighty truisms of life, the need to live in remembrance of death, and the absolute loneliness of the human soul when facing death. The drama is worthy its subject, stern as iron, "simple as bread...
...Clive's excellent company of English caricaturists have all the material they need in Leslie Howard's farce of "Murray Hill." Two old maids with an attractive unmarried niece, a drunken nephew from Chicago and his impersonator from Princeton make the wheels spin around until one of the older ladies goes on a prolonged tear with the nephew, the impersonator is engaged to the niece, and the old family lawyer makes appropriate motions of merriment and despair at the goings-on in the dignified house on Murray Hill...
...spoke with mild wonder of a short visit to Atlantic City calculated to lengthen, not abbreviate, his life; deplored the fact that his creditors had "come down so hard" on him, assured everyone that the embezzlement charges brought by a Mrs. Jennie C. H. Denton, who claimed $150,000, need not have been pushed so vigorously; promised: "If I can only get time to do it, I can make these debts good...
...this position to see the Crimson flying in victory over the lecture hall is not all that could be desired by a crowd returning from the Stadium. A university may be justly proud of its rank in scholastic groups, but as high a place in the field of athletics need not dim the light of intellectual achievement nor vitally affect the greater glory of the mind...