Word: older
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Business School buildings will be built of dark red brick with white trim, and cornices and gables similar to the original Harvard buildings, of which the most, famous is Massachusetts Hall. They will, of course, be of first-class fire proof construction which, unfortunately, many of the older buildings are not, as the recent fire in the oldest of them has proved...
...strength of the labor movement that it has sought and gained power by the traditional mode of election. And since it is conservative in its methods if not in its ideals, the alleged "socialistic" party should attract those liberal elements which have in recent years become diffused among the older organizations, thus gaining the strength necessary not only to retain office but to drive actual control...
...doctrine of happiness," he went on last night, "every man has the right to be happy, and so if he is unhappy he is entitled to complain of a wrong and the guilty individual who has taken his share. It is radically false, and did not exist in the older philosophies. The doctrine began in England two and a half centuries ago during the reign of Charles the Second, a period when other unwholesome things crept into the world. The word 'happiness' does not occur a single time in the authorized version of the Bible. 'Happy' does occur...
...would be a greater work if it dealt more with it. It reveals the second maxim subtly and upon the third, it is founded. There is no person created by Mr. Bromfield that is not poignantly individual, and even peculiar. The more his characters assert themselves and the older they grow, the more they intensify themselves. You have never seen John, Julia, Lily or Irene Shane before, but you will not soon forget them. They are alluring because they are alive. For instance, the development of Irene, from an innocent, sensitive child to the inhuman old maid, is surely...
...White, connoisseur of beauty in art and women, already had won her. Her hair as black as smoke in the night, her eyes limpid and violet, her under lip full and tremulous, her bosom shallow as the chest of a growing boy, her experience that of a woman much older, she held out her arms to the wastrel Pittsburgher and he rushed into them...