Word: objectivity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...paternal editorials in the Press and family albums in the Home-of P. T. Barnum and his "industrious fleas," his "Anatomical Venus," his "Magnificant Moving Diorama of the Funeral of Napoleon Bonaparte," his educated dogs, his Albinos, his questionable "Fejee Mermaid" (which turned out to be a gruesome object "made from parts of a monkey and a fish, and purchased from a Japanese sailor who must have had a great deal of time on his hands")-the days of elegant soirées attended by "the very elite of society-scientific, elegant, highly respectable, and probably the richest and purest...
...every device to get into society, or what is left of it, but all their doings will only be a sham. You cannot make a silk purse out of a soused mackerel, neither will they command the same respect." Which leaves the reader somewhat in doubt as to the object of the comparison-and the respect. A book quite without guile, absolutely without discretion, for the most part mildly amusing, on some few occasions, penetrating...
...later the President commuted one day from each of the sentences. The object of the commutation was not the 24 hours involved, but to bring the sentences just within the limit which permits them to be served in a local prison instead of in a federal penitentiary, Atlanta or Leavenworth...
...would be more pleasant for the undergraduate than the institution of an invitation system for football games. As one of those most interested and consequently most favored, he would be benefited by such a change more than anyone else. The alumni, also, would profit a little. But if the object of such an innovation were to stamp out commercialism in college athletics, it would very probably fall...
...meet this practical objection, a $10,000,000 endowment fund would have to be gathered; and since it would be for the most popular of all causes athletics this fund would have an unusual appeal. Even such as extraordinary amount might be secured. But in securing it, the entire object of the plan would inevitably be defeated. Athletics would receive such advertising as never before. It still seems best that those who enjoy the games should pay the piper...