Word: particularities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...responsibility. You are in the forefront in the development of manhood. You guide the youths who in their turn inherit the position of leadership. It is up to you to keep in touch with these students--to know what they do and what they think. They have their own particular tendencies and the smart man is he who can direct the natural force and not curb nor oppose it. But first he must understand the students...
...former student of this University, now studying law at Harvard, tells us that the elite East has never heard of the University of California. When asked occasionally where he spent his undergraduate years, this particular graduate will say, "California." Then the person will say, "That's in Los Angeles, isn't it?" or, "You have pretty good football teams...
Robert Briffault's oldfashioned, awkwardly-written first novel cannot be compared with the great post-War novels on the same subject. Subtitled "The Days of Ignorance," it is an exhaustive 500-page picture of upper-class Europe in the decades before the War, with particular emphasis on those forces within society that were even then laying the ground for conflict. The emotional life of Julian Bern, precociously intelligent son of an English consul in Italy, began with a love affair with Zena, a Russian princess, whose noble family, perverse, gifted, incredibly wealthy, gave evidence of the fatal decadence...
...brought its young author a friendly six-page letter from Assistant Secretary of the Navy Theodore Roosevelt. Promptly taken up by Saturday Evening Post, Author Flandrau continued to write, less frankly, a series of sketches dealing with college life in general, with two amiable, intelligent, irresponsible Harvard boys in particular. Last week Author Flandrau prefaced a slim collection of these sketches with a long, ingratiating introduction almost entirely given over to an account of the formidable difficulties that a candid young writer faced in a period when editors were cautious to the point of timidity...
...have taken particular pains to explain her surroundings to her. We describe the things she touches, the things she tastes, hears and smells. That probably accounts in large measure for her vocabulary...