Word: nobler
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...from the hustle and bustle of Michigan Avenue is a little town in merry England where Duchess Laura lives in her own quaint fashion. As conceived by Mrs. Bellor Loundes, Dutchess Laura -- Further Days of Iter Life (Longmans, Green, $2.00) is a real study of the nobler class...
...bill is an event which should not pass into the limbo of Government 1. That the nation may soon quench 3.2 per cent of its inordinate thirst, spurs the the interested observer to inquire whether the movement will spread to the House dining halls. Much water, not unmixed with nobler elements, has passed under the bridge since the University last dispensed larger with magnificent indifference. Whether she can recapture the first fine careless rapture of pre-Volsteadian days is, of course, another question...
...CRIMSON writes ". . . lost we forget, these who have been splendid in service and sublime in suffering." Eulogizing the dead and the living soldier, praising his heroic martyrdom, he hallows war. He makes it a holy step in a path of glory, threats it as the means to "peace and nobler life," actually calls those "happy who actively served in this great cause...
Behind the horn-rimmed spectacles and tousled head lies there a cooler mind, a more capable brain than reposes beneath the nobler brow of these who have gone before? Certainly those unfortunate head-holders who are loaded down with overhead in belt buckles and monogrammed suspender buttons can testify that the men of '38 are utterly impervious to even the most provocative of inducements...
...purely popular authors get more & more established, they feel it behooves them to justify their popularity by infusing their entertainment with a Message. American Beauty's Message: from the mixture in the U. S. melting pot of inbred aristocracy and peasant stock will come a new & nobler breed. But you do not have to pay attention to Edna Ferber's Message to enjoy her story...