Word: nods
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...half of my many kingdoms. This you could give--and yet still extra-curriculum is where the real lux and the real veritas linger. "Give me wherewith to stand and I will move the world." So we cry unto you; but as a University you will not hear--you nod wisely, and build your requirements for the average man who does not exist, and think not at all of creating that place on which the genius, which is each one of us who come to Yale,--may stand. --Maxwell Jo. Foster in the Yale Literary Magazine...
...taken as butts for his jests, as far as I can recall, the much maligned mother-in-law and plumber. His is a humor of a higher kind, angling for larger fry, such as Protestantism, Modernism, historical criticism, German professors, and the economic law. But occasionally even Mr. Chesterton nods, and when he does nod, his leonine head sinks very low, indeed. Such low ebbs in his humor are to be noticed, for instance, when he turns his shafts against such popular objects of mirth as prohibition and Jews...