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...public acclamation and the sport-light of fame. The pilots of the Army, Navy and commercial airlines, in making daily flights from city to city, year in and year out, have contributed invaluable service to the cause of American aviation, and their work is all the nobler because it is unheralded and unsung...
...that the motivation for the deaths remains mysterious to this day, the Mayerling affair has been pawed at by sensation mongers for two generations. In The Masque of Kings the dead prince and his mistress have for the first time fallen into literary hands capable of giving their story nobler treatment...
...decided until the Foundation's four administrators meet is whether Banker Hayden's millions will be spent in grants to existing schools and colleges, as many a bursar and overseer hoped last week, or by devising the Foundation's own method of making a nobler race...
...future of this nation, and of the world . . . depends in no small part upon the young men. If . . . they be fostered and encouraged in the manner of right and proper living . . . we shall rear a nobler race of men, who will make better and more enlightened citizens, to the ultimate benefit of mankind...
...neglected heretofore ; in the omnipotence of the dream and in the disinterested play of thought. . . . We who have not given ourselves to processes of filtering, who through the medium of our work have been content to be the silent receptacle of many echoes . . . are perhaps yet serving a much nobler cause." Surrealism in plainer language is an attempt to explore the subconscious mind and to evoke emotional reactions through the illogical juxtaposition of objects. The difference between the cubists and present day abstract painters on one hand, and dadaists and surrealists on the other is basic, easily grasped. Abstract painters...